OMEGA SERIES BOX SET: Books 1-4 by Banner Blake

Author:Banner, Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2018-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

Ten

It was almost ten by the time I got back to the hotel. Hirschfield was still in the dining room with a bottle of Rotem & Mounir on the table. He was smoking a long, black cigarette and hailed me with a fat, happy smile on his face as I came in.

As I sat, he showed me the cigarette and said, “I convinced the manager that I would sue him for a breach of my human rights and make a class action of it, but assured him that if he was fined for allowing me to smoke, I would pay the fine and testify in his favor.”

“You’re a good man.”

“Besides, I have it on good authority that only Jackson and the sheriff remain in Burgundy, everybody else has fled north. I am waiting for suckling pig. Will you join me?”

I nodded and pulled out my cell. I called Hays.

“Yeah, Captain. All right?”

“You eat?”

“Kind of.”

“We need to talk. I’m in the dining room with Hirschfield.”

“Five minutes.”

I hung up and Hirschfield sipped and cocked an eyebrow at me while he did it.

“You look mad.”

“I am mad.”

“Have a drink.”

I called the waiter over. “Give me a martini, very dry. And another one of these damned Cotes du Rhone. And get me a steak. Two, there’ll be somebody joining us.”

He looked vaguely surprised at my tone of voice and hurried away with my order.

Hirschfield smacked his lips and sighed.

“Something tells me you have something I ought to know about.”

I pulled a Camel from my pack and lit up, blowing smoke at the ceiling. I chewed my lip and stared at Hirschfield.

“Sarah Carmichael had a place on the bayou that her husband didn’t know about.”

He raised his eyebrows real high at his glass, like it had been a really impertinent glass, and sighed through his considerable nose. “That would explain her immaculate reputation.”

I nodded. “It does.”

He looked at me. “It does? As a fact?”

I reached in my pocket and pulled out the cellophane bag of hair and the slug. I dropped them in front of him.

“There were two kinds of hair in the sink hole in the bath, hers and a black guy’s.”

He eyed it and grunted, but he didn’t touch it.

“We need DNA profiles on them, and we need a ballistics comparison on the slug.”

He took the bags and looked at them. “I’ll see what I can do. There is a lab in Fort Worth that can do it in a couple of days. I’ll have them driven over. It’s not cheap.”

“Whatever it costs, Hirschfield. Get it done.” I hesitated. “There’s more.”

“Are you having doubts about Hays?”

“I don’t know.”

“If you don’t know, that means you are.”

I studied his face a moment while he studied mine back.

“I won’t know until he gets here.” We sat in silence a moment. “Is there anything I should know about Wilberforce?”

He looked surprised. “Like what?”

I told him what I had seen.

He looked impatient. “That little scenario has probably been played out a hundred times over the last ten years. We engage in the warfare of business so that we can have these little celebrations of triumph.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.