“STOKES FELT LIKE HE’D MADE a little progress. He thought he knew where to be to receive the one thirty call. And he’d been able to convince himself that the kidnappers wouldn’t really care about the evidence, whatever it was, once they learned that Jenkins was dead. His big problem was that he still had only $248,000 and Grote’s guys had made it crystal clear that showing up with a penny less than the $350,000 Paul stole from Grote was not going to be acceptable. And $102,000 was a lot more tha...n a penny. So he needed to come up with that amount in just under three and a half and hours. He wasn’t factoring in the forty-odd dollars he had left of Tom What’s-His-Name-from-Pittsburgh’s money, the cash he took from Paul’s wallet, or the seventy-two cents he found on his nightstand. If he wanted to come up with a lot of money fast, he had only a few options of varying levels of viability. The first option was to borrow it. The odds of one of his acquaintances having that kind of money within easy reach were very, very low.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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