Lizardskin
“They figured one of the guys had remembered some business somewhere, or maybe they had detoured south to Hardin for a drink at Twilly’s, or they could have gone cross-county to Roundup for some God-cursed reason. They could have gone west to Laurel on another call, because Ron Thornton suddenly remembered that Danny Burt, Gentile’s senior driver on duty, had mentioned a pickup at Zweibeck’s Nursing Home in Laurel—that turned out to be wrong. Or maybe they’d gone up to Musselshell because Burt h...ad a girlfriend in Musselshell, and Sugar remembered that once before Danny had taken a load of stiffs up to Musselshell and left them cooking in the wagon while he did the horizontal bop with this girl—what was her name, Lorraine? Something like that.
When Sugar started talking about horizontal bopping, Ballard snapped the gold locks on her snakeskin briefcase and started to weave her way through the growing crowd in the squad room. She stopped at the glass doors and looked back at McAllister through the sweep of golden hair.MoreLess
When Sugar started talking about horizontal bopping, Ballard snapped the gold locks on her snakeskin briefcase and started to weave her way through the growing crowd in the squad room. She stopped at the glass doors and looked back at McAllister through the sweep of golden hair.MoreLess
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