Dead Sleep
Dead Sleep
“I am not at that meeting. I’ve been banished to SAC Bowles’s office. Once again, exclusion defines my status as an outsider. The meeting is being chaired by a deputy director of the FBI, and includes the U.S. Attorney for New Orleans, the New Orleans chief of police, the sheriff of Jefferson Parish, and various other big shots. It’s amazing how they come out of the woodwork when there’s a whiff of success in the air.
While I wait, my mind whirls with memories of Marcel de Becque, his paintings,... his beautiful Vietnamese servant, and the photo of my father on his wall. But these memories are only static crackling around the electric knowledge that, if Daniel Baxter’s plan is not overruled, I will soon be facing suspects—men who may have killed my sister—in the hope of rattling them into betraying themselves. This prospect does more to settle my soul than anything I’ve tried in the past year.
Agent Wendy, my bodyguard, has walked in twice and tried to make small talk, but I couldn’t concentrate, and she took the hint.MoreLess
While I wait, my mind whirls with memories of Marcel de Becque, his paintings,... his beautiful Vietnamese servant, and the photo of my father on his wall. But these memories are only static crackling around the electric knowledge that, if Daniel Baxter’s plan is not overruled, I will soon be facing suspects—men who may have killed my sister—in the hope of rattling them into betraying themselves. This prospect does more to settle my soul than anything I’ve tried in the past year.
Agent Wendy, my bodyguard, has walked in twice and tried to make small talk, but I couldn’t concentrate, and she took the hint.MoreLess
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