An Old Man's Game by Andy Weinberger

Author:Andy Weinberger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Published: 2019-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Omar follows me back to Shir Emet after breakfast. I tell him to keep an eye out for the black Audi, and I do, too, but there’s no stranger in my rearview mirror. Whoever they are, they’re obviously not following me day and night. Only when it suits them.

I come down La Cienega and make a gentle left onto Fountain. Omar’s about thirty yards behind me in the next lane. He tells me my questions are giving him a headache. What’s he complaining about? I say to myself. Hell, they’re even giving me a headache. I pass a tattoo parlor and gay clothing boutique and a dry cleaners and a hair salon and what looks like a hip Japanesefusion restaurant with lots of empty tables. I glance at my watch. It’s too early for the lunch crowd, I think. Or maybe nobody goes there. Maybe it’s still waiting to be discovered. I stop for a red light. The flotsam and jetsam of Los Angeles are on display. The sun is shining. The palm trees are swaying. No one knows there’s a killer out there. What’s worse is none of these people seem to care. And why should they? They all have mobile phones, they all have credit cards tucked away in their hip pockets, and they’re ambling across streets like there’s no tomorrow. They’re arm in arm with loved ones. Every morning they wake up in paradise. Death? Death is barely a word in their vocabulary. It’ll never happen to them, they think. Death is what happens to someone else. The light turns green. I press my foot to the gas pedal. The car rolls forward and my mind curls back to Jonah Siegel. I was hoping they’d find him alive, but now that he’s gone, it complicates things. My headache will never go away at this rate. And the truth is, he could have told us what this was all about. I’m sure of that. It would have been so simple if only we could just sit down somewhere quiet and talk it over.

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