Bunch, Chris - Shadow Warrior 01 by Bunch Chris

Author:Bunch, Chris
Language: eng
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Joshua had just finished dressing to go out when the ship told him the Dolphin was pulling up at the plat-form. He'd eaten on the ship after Candia had left, not wishing to test his digestion against the casino's efforts again.

Thetis was the only one aboard. She had a large plastic envelope under her arm. Wolfe hesitated, then invited her inside.

"I'm a butt," she said.

"Nice opening. Why?"

"Oh… I was rude this afternoon. I wasn't profes-sional. I'm sorry. I thought—anyway, I didn't have any right."

Wolfe started to say something, remembered sleep-less nights and the Federation official's daughter, and changed his mind. "Forget it. Everybody's entitled to a mood every now and then."

Thetis brightened. "That's good. Thanks. I won't do it again. The main reason I had to come out was I've found your Mister Sutro! And I know an awful lot about him!"

She beamed, and Joshua grinned.

"Sit down," she ordered, and touched the fastener on the envelope and took out papers. "Now the Sibyl of Cumae will hold forth. Knows all, sees all, and will talk your ear off about it.

"Sutro. First name, Edet. Naturalized citizen of Trinite for about ten years, since right after the war. No police record. Nobody knows where he came from be-fore that. Grampa got that," she explained, "from a

fishcop he used to be friends with who doesn't know things are different now.

"I'll get a picture of Sutro tomorrow. He's big, people said, and has a beard.

"He calls himself an expediter, which Grampa said can mean almost anything. He owns an island he's named Thrinacia. I had to look that up—"

"I know what it was. He has a nasty choice of names."

"I think he's probably nasty in other ways," Thetis said. "Anyway, Thrinacia is one of the Outer Islands, about forty miles off Morne-des-Esses. I've been out to the islands three or four times. We could get to Thrinacia with the Dolphin on a calm day, or you could rent a lifter. I looked it up on the chart, and it's about a mile long by two miles wide. It's got its own robot instrument-approach spaceport, two or three separate mansions, and a sheltered docking area. The island's surrounded on three sides with cliffs.

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They're not very high, no more than fifty feet, and I think you could climb them if you wanted. The other side, the one with the dock, has some beaches."

"Let's go back to this cliff climbing for a minute," Joshua said. "What do you think I am?"

Thetis looked at him wisely, then back to her papers. "He has twelve men working for him. / found that out. Do you know how? I'm real proud of myself."

"Tell me."

"There's only about three groceries that cater to the people who live off Morne-des-Esses. Naturally, since I do a lot of the deliveries, I know all of them pretty well.

"Mister Sutro does his shopping at Sentry Markets,

and I found out from the manager there's an open charge account with thirteen authorized signatures.

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