Rising Phoenix
“Of course, that didn’t prove anything. Manion had warned him that the effects of the mushrooms would be negligible for almost two weeks. And then you’d be dead.
The bad news was that he hadn’t heard a word from Robert Swenson since he had given him the go-ahead. Hobart was struggling to keep his mind from running endless worst-case scenarios. Its current favorite was that his partner had been captured and was at this moment giving him up. He had briefly considered moving from the warehouse, but... where to? Better to just sit it out and keep his eyes open. In the interim, a bullet-proof vest and extra clips for his .45 had found their way under his jacket.
He had planned to have a ballpark time frame on the arrival of the tainted heroin before putting the ads in the paper, but it didn’t look like he was going to have that luxury. In the scenario currently branded into his mind, the heroin didn’t even get poisoned—Swenson was caught going in. In any event, his best guess was that the first wave of bad coke was going to hit the American shore in about four days.MoreLess
The bad news was that he hadn’t heard a word from Robert Swenson since he had given him the go-ahead. Hobart was struggling to keep his mind from running endless worst-case scenarios. Its current favorite was that his partner had been captured and was at this moment giving him up. He had briefly considered moving from the warehouse, but... where to? Better to just sit it out and keep his eyes open. In the interim, a bullet-proof vest and extra clips for his .45 had found their way under his jacket.
He had planned to have a ballpark time frame on the arrival of the tainted heroin before putting the ads in the paper, but it didn’t look like he was going to have that luxury. In the scenario currently branded into his mind, the heroin didn’t even get poisoned—Swenson was caught going in. In any event, his best guess was that the first wave of bad coke was going to hit the American shore in about four days.MoreLess
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