Walking Money by James O. Born

Author:James O. Born [Born, James O.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2011-04-23T10:53:09+00:00

WALKING MONEY 141

Tina said, “We’ll work something out. Do you have a lawyer yet?”

“I’m looking.”

“Can I help with something?” She gave him a deadly earnest look.

“Not yet. I don’t want you implicated in any way.”

“If it involves moving a couple million dollars, you can go ahead and implicate me.”

That comment stayed with him the rest of the evening.

SLAYDA “Mac” Nmir leaned back into the Gap store across from the Dadeland Mall’s food court. He watched Tasker and the female FDLE agent, Tina Wiggins, talk for about ten minutes before she hugged him and headed toward the south exit. Mac, who prided himself on his cool professionalism, had to take a second to savor the action of her long legs grinding against each other where they met her trim but shapely upper body. He took a breath and refocused on Tasker, who was still sitting next to the wishing well, just staring into space.

Mac had to admit that the guy sure seemed lazy to be some kind of master criminal. When he wasn’t sulking around his apartment, he lay on his couch for long stretches, apparently trying to sleep. When he did leave the house, surveillance had managed to lose him every time within a few blocks. Mac was curious how Tasker knew so much about Cole Hodges and why he’d talked to the Eighth Street Boyz. Mac puzzled trying to figure out the state cop. He always thought crooked cops didn’t pout when they were discovered. They set about pushing the 142 JAMES O. BORN

blame on someone else or tried to run. This guy seemed real torn up that anyone would even question his integrity.

If it weren’t for his past, Mac would have figured he couldn’t be involved in a bank robbery. Just when Mac would start to think the guy was innocent, something would pop up to incriminate him. His interest in the bank for surveillance. Who would ever think someone was going to rob a run-down piece-of-shit bank like that? The crack dealer who saw Tasker’s car in the area. His disappearance before the riots. Someone should have remembered seeing him during that time. The gas pump records computer at the state pumps hadn’t been activated because of the state of emergency, so he might have been one of the thirty-two cars to gas up in the four hours prior to the verdict. And most damning was the cash they’d found in his grill at his town house. Mac had to admit he’d never have gone for a search warrant if his boss hadn’t told him to make something stick after the news story came out on Channel Eleven. Everyone thought it was Mac who had leaked the story. Although he loved seeing his work in public, he’d never even met the young reporter who’d broken it. That Olga Vasquez, who he’d heard had fucked half the agents over at the DEA. Now the office was awash with inspectors trying to figure out who’d let out confidential information.

Now, as he watched Tasker and reviewed the acts in his head, he had his doubts again.

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