The Night Watcher by Lutz John

Author:Lutz, John [Lutz, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pinnacle
Published: 2010-09-02T14:00:00+00:00

Ed Marks became an honest cop on the day Myra told him he and Amy weren’t going to get the co-op after all. She repaid their $20,000 loan from her own pocket, he knew. What bothered him was how Amy cried, and how he longed to go see whoever on the board had rejected them and use his nightstick to beat him to death.

But what bothered him most was that a slimeball he didn’t even know had possession of the knowledge that Ed Marks, a cop and a cop’s son, was dirty. This wasn’t free meals at some hash house so he’d hang around and prevent trouble, or a merchant’s key so he could get in out of the cold sometimes. This was the kind of thing—twenty thousand was big enough money—that would kill his career and make him want to kill himself. He knew what it felt like now, and how it would feel if he gave in to the temptations of the Job again. It was all out there on the street for the taking, something beyond a cop’s salary, a cop’s pension; all a cop had to do was nod or look the other way at the right time. Not Ed Marks. Not if this was the way it could feel afterward. Nothing like this would happen to him again—ever.

The Markses had to get out of their apartment within days. Myra Raven helped them to locate a fourth-floor walk-up to live in temporarily while they continued looking for something better and affordable. The place was decrepit, and Marks wished it had an elevator. It was a good thing Amy didn’t have to go out much, a woman carrying twins taking four flights of stairs. It wasn’t right. It wasn’t fair.

Ed Marks found himself thinking more and more often that he’d like to find the bastard who put them in this position and do something about him.

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