Mean Streak
“For once, Winthrop’s sarcastic knife wasn’t out; he called Eddie “the last cop in this cesspool of a city with honor and integrity.”
Eddie’s face, his Irish-cop, grownup-altarboy face, stared up at me in gritty black-and-white. It was a face, I reflected glumly, that any jury would love: boyish and open, with a winning smile.
I looked from the newspaper to my client, comparing Eddie’s youthful face to Matt Riordan’s—the face that had launched a thousand acquittals. It was a handsome face, but i...t was also one that had known guile, a face that concealed hidden agendas. A face it would be easy to distrust.
We were in my office, on my turf. I’d insisted on that; it would be all too easy to let Matt run the show if we continued to discuss the case on Park Avenue. So he’d come to Brooklyn, still impeccably dressed, in a golf shirt and creased pants. I wore an old T-shirt with the slogan “A Woman Without a Man Is Like a Fish Without a Bicycle.” In the months since Matt and I had broken up, that T-shirt had left my closet a lot more often.MoreLess
Eddie’s face, his Irish-cop, grownup-altarboy face, stared up at me in gritty black-and-white. It was a face, I reflected glumly, that any jury would love: boyish and open, with a winning smile.
I looked from the newspaper to my client, comparing Eddie’s youthful face to Matt Riordan’s—the face that had launched a thousand acquittals. It was a handsome face, but i...t was also one that had known guile, a face that concealed hidden agendas. A face it would be easy to distrust.
We were in my office, on my turf. I’d insisted on that; it would be all too easy to let Matt run the show if we continued to discuss the case on Park Avenue. So he’d come to Brooklyn, still impeccably dressed, in a golf shirt and creased pants. I wore an old T-shirt with the slogan “A Woman Without a Man Is Like a Fish Without a Bicycle.” In the months since Matt and I had broken up, that T-shirt had left my closet a lot more often.MoreLess
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