Vespers by Ed Mcbain
Author:Ed Mcbain [Mcbain, Ed]
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780743470759
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2010-05-22T18:30:00+00:00
"It was real good, man," Rudy said, still Carella was willing to bet it had been real "So what happened?" he asked pleasantly. "Bobby wanted to go get his stuff back." "What stuff?." "The stuff the nigger ripped off." "Ripped off?." "Yeah, you know." "No, I don't know. Tell me." This is the fifth episode of Rashomon. there will be no more installments. This is the chapter. At least Carella hopes it is the final They are back to Easter Sunday again, the windy, shitty day, everyone seems to agree weather. And it is still two-thirty, three o'clock afternoon, everyone agrees on the time as well. the star player, or at least one of the star this tedious and interminable little me once again coming up Eleventh Street, doing Rudy calls his Nigger Shuffle, and grinning into wind like he owns the world. Alexis has not anything about this part of the saga because she not witness to it, but so far Hooper's, Bobby's, Seronia's versions are all in agreement. But they to the dope part again, which dope Hooper first there to sell, and next there to buy, and next off with after Bobby accused him of using funny the last time they traded. And, sure enough, are going into the hallway again, and another dope transaction is about to go down, these two Bobby and Hooper- • are in the habit of exchanging money for dope, you see, and vice versa, Mrs. Reagan, which is why little girls in red hoods should not go wandering off into the woods where evil and corruption lurk, hmmm? So there in the hallway, out comes the crack. A hundred vials, identical to the tiny glass tubes perfume samples come in, except that these vials don't contain Eau du Printemps. These vials contain little crystals that look like exaggerated grains of salt but which are actually cocaine base, which is made by heating a mixture of baking soda, cocaine hydrochloride and water, and then letting it cool. These little vials are deadly. Out comes the crack... "And out comes the piece," Rudy said. "The what?" "The piece." "A gun?" "A gun." "Bobby pulled a gun?" "No, no. The nigger pulled the gun. ... because what he has in mind, you see, is taking these hundred vials worth four hundred bucks and not giving Bobby a red cent for them. That the piece is for. Which upon closer looks like a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson Re Police Model 33, capable of putting very lar in anyone's head who is stupid enough grabbing that plastic bag of crack away Hooper. Unless the someone is standing a little side of and slightly behind the nigger, and there's a baseball bat (and also a softball and a but it is only the bat that is of importance) corner of the hallway, where one of the kids when his mother called him upstairs to The bat is propped against the wall, and the the softball are
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