Die a Stranger: An Alex McKnight Novel by Steve Hamilton

Author:Steve Hamilton [Hamilton, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense, Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, Private Investigators, Hard-Boiled
ISBN: 9781250000101
Google: -AJqMgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1455851396
Barnesnoble: 1455851396
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2012-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

He pulled me to the street. I tried to push him away, not for any coherent reason, just a reflexive reaction to what I’d seen through the window.

“Let’s get the hell out of here,” he said through clenched teeth. “Right now.”

“We have to stay here,” I said. “We have to call somebody.”

“Like hell we do.”

I took him by the arm and was halfway into a wristlock, pure muscle memory from all of those years on the force. A suspect resists and you twist that arm right around and turn that wrist. All of a sudden he’s a lot more cooperative.

“I’m calling the police,” I said. “Then we’re going to wait until they get here.”

“Don’t be an idiot. If we call the police, they’ll lock us both up.”

“Why would they do that?”

“Because that’s what they do.”

I knew that was the reality for him, at least. That was his own personal experience.

“No, Lou. Come on.”

“We came here earlier today,” he said, “and now we’re back and those two guys are lying in there in a lake of blood. What do you think they’re gonna do?”

“They’re gonna talk to us, and we’re gonna tell them everything we know.”

“So you want them to take us down to the station, is that what you’re saying? Best case, they put us in a room for the next twenty-four hours. Ask us the same questions over and over, which won’t do anybody any good. Meanwhile, whoever it was who did this is getting closer and closer to Vinnie.”

“He wasn’t there, you realize that.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Vinnie’s not involved in this. He’s never had anything to do with Dukes or these people from downstate, and he wasn’t even at the airport that night. He just picked up Buck and—”

“And helped Buck get away,” Lou said. “He’s been with Buck ever since. Go ask Dukes’ neighbor in there, what’s his name? Eddie? Go ask Eddie how that one works. You think Eddie was a big player in this whole thing?”

I took a quick look up and down the street, expecting somebody to be watching us. Two men standing in the yard, having an argument. But the street was empty.

“You make a fair point,” I said, “but we still can’t just leave. We can’t let somebody else find these guys like this.”

“Then we call the cops when we’re on the road. Give them an anonymous tip, tell them to come check out this house. It’ll do just as much good, without jamming us up. We have to keep moving, Alex, don’t you understand?”

“But we have no idea where we’re going. You know that.”

“We have to think. We have to figure it out.”

I let go of him. I wasn’t ready to leave with him, but what he was saying, it was starting to sink in.

“Whoever did this,” Lou said, “if they get to Vinnie and Buck first…”

In which case it would be hopeless, I thought. In which case they’re as good as dead. But I didn’t dare say it.

Then it hit me.

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