The Destroyer - 65 - The Destroyer 065 - Lost Yesterday by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir

Author:Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir [Murphy, Warren & Sapir, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pulp Action
Publisher: PINNACLE BOOKS
Published: 2010-03-19T14:53:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Lawyer Bar­ry Glid­den sent his chil­dren off to Switzer­land, telling them to use an­oth­er name for a while. He would con­tact them when the sit­ua­tion im­proved.

“Have you done some­thing wrong, Dad­dy?” asked his daugh­ter.

“No,” said Glid­den. “I have a very dif­fi­cult client who is very mad now.”

“They won’t pay you?”

“No. That’s the least of my wor­ries. There is a client I have who thinks the on­ly wrong thing in the world is if some­thing bad hap­pens to her. And she does bad things.”

“Like what, Dad­dy?”

“Like any­thing, hon­ey. Ab­so­lute­ly any­thing. Any­thing, sweet­heart. Do you un­der­stand?” Bar­ry held the girl’s head in his hands. He shud­dered. “There is noth­ing be­yond this sick, sick la­dy’s imag­ina­tion. Noth­ing that she won’t do. To any­one. So that is why you have to leave. She is mad at me now.”

“Couldn’t you get po­lice­men to pro­tect you?”

“Doesn’t work like that, sweet­heart. Not with those two.”

“Then why do you de­fend them?”

“Wall, she paid a lot of mon­ey. Lots. And I didn’t … couldn’t be­lieve they were as bad as they turned out.”

“Oh, Dad­dy. You have had some ab­so­lute­ly hor­rid clients.”

“She puts al­li­ga­tors in swim­ming pools of peo­ple she doesn’t like. She threat­ens the Pres­ident. And she promised to boil some­one alive in oil if she lost a law­suit. If I lost a law­suit. Get on the plane, hon­ey.”

“Did you lose the law­suit?”

“Not yet, just the first round. But we don’t stand a chance.”

“She’s go­ing to boil you alive in oil, Dad­dy?”

“No, hon­ey, some­one I love.”

“Good-​bye, Dad­dy. Don’t phone un­til it’s over. They can trace phone calls.”

“Good-​bye, hon­ey,” said Bar­ry Glid­den, who de­spite his sense of ter­ror was not too ter­ri­fied to do some good busi­ness be­fore he saw the Dolo­mos. He brought two more in­vestors in­to the city com­plex he had planned for the Dolo­mo es­tate. Then he went out to see Beat­rice and her hus­band. Gin­ger­ly he drove over one of her moats. He won­dered if there were al­li­ga­tors in there. He won­dered if she would throw him in be­fore he got the chance to fit two hun­dred du­plex units on the south lawn.

Glid­den knew Beat­rice was on a ram­page be­cause Ru­bin was hid­ing. He stood in the mid­dle of the pink mar­ble foy­er and looked for clues as to Ru­bin’s where­abouts. From the rear of the house echoed a sound-​a gur­gling, hap­py sound. He knew that couldn’t be Ru­bin, but the sounds in­trigued him. Glid­den would in­ves­ti­gate. He walked past a few of the body­guards the Dolo­mos had sta­tioned strate­gi­cal­ly around the es­tate since the par­ents of a Powie at­tempt­ed to kill them for steal­ing their daugh­ter.

Of course, they hadn’t re­al­ly stolen the daugh­ter. They had on­ly sold her some cours­es. She was work­ing in Aus­tralia for the rest of her life to pay them off.

Glid­den saw a row of doors with glass win­dows. The gur­gling came from one of them. He peeked in. What he saw was grown peo­ple in di­apers. First he won­dered if it were a new form of Cal­ifor­nia sex, but no one was touch­ing ex­cept for oc­ca­sion­al hair pulls.

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