“Shad said he bought it off a guy at Dania jai-alai.“Dead or alive?”“Alive,” Shad said.Orly leaned in for a closer look. “Is it sick or what?”Shad said, “No, I drowned it.”“How?”“Johnnie Walker.”Orly laughed, sucking air through his teeth. “Red or black?”“Red,” Shad said. He used his tweezers to lift the dead scorpion from the jar.“Big fucker,” Orly observed. “So the idea is to make it look like the company’s fault?”“Sure.” Shad placed the dead scorpion in an eight-ounce carton of cottage cheese.... He spooned curds over the soggy corpse except for the stinger, which he purposely left exposed.Orly said, “And they’ll pay off? The company, I mean.”“Wouldn’t you?” Shad placed the lid on the container and pressed firmly on the edges. He hadn’t yet decided whether to sue the cottage-cheese manufacturer or the national supermarket chain that carried the product.“The guy who sold you the scorpion, is he the same one that sold you the snake?”“No,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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