Dog Eat Dog by David Rosenfelt

Author:David Rosenfelt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

I take a different route on my morning walk with the dogs today.

I have a simple rule of thumb: if I go someplace where two huge thugs try to attack me on behalf of a violent drug dealer, I avoid that place for at least twenty-four hours. It’s a tactic that has served me well.

This is a more crowded route, at least in terms of other people walking their own dogs. I have to stop a few times to let my dogs sniff the newly met strangers, and vice versa. That’s fine with me, except it forces me to make small talk with their owners. I’m not a fan of small talk; I’m not that crazy about big talk either.

I get back, grab muffins for Laurie and me, and head upstairs for a shower. Laurie is not back yet. Because she doesn’t have her exercise bike here, she goes for a run every morning. She runs three miles, and I would join her if I was in shape and insane.

As she is walking in, not even breathing heavily, my cell phone rings. The caller ID says that it’s the US government calling, so I answer in my mature, adult voice, as befitting the occasion. “Hello?”

“Good morning, Mr. Carpenter, this is Agent Donald Nichols, FBI, Portland office. We spoke in my office earlier.”

“I can remember that far back.”

“I’d like to come up there to speak with you this morning.”

“What about?”

“If I was inclined to discuss it on the phone, I wouldn’t need to come up there.”

That kind of logic is difficult to argue with, and I’m intrigued by why Nichols would be calling, so I agree to wait at the hotel for him. It’s not a great concession, since I had no place to go anyway.

He says that he’s in Brunswick and will be here in about forty minutes. I tell Laurie about the call, so she quickly takes a shower so that she can also hear what Nichols has to say.

Sam Willis calls to update me on his progress on the cyber-searches I gave him. “Let’s start with McCaskill. In the day that you visited him, he made four calls. One was almost immediately after you left from the burner phone, the other three were that night. Two of the nighttime calls were from his regular phone; the other was from the burner.

“The two nighttime calls from the regular phone were probably insignificant. One was to his boss at the landscaping company, and another was to a pizza place. Unless people interesting to you work at either of those places, you can probably disregard them.

“The two burner calls, the morning one and another later that night, were to a guy named Gavin Helms. Helms is also using a burner phone.”

“So how do you know it’s him?”

“He was dumb enough to buy it with his credit card; the purchase was in northern Vermont. Anyway, I ran a search on Helms. He’s got five arrests, two for assault, one for illegal assembly, and two for illegal possessions of outlawed firearms.

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