The Viking Funeral (2001)
“The ornate grille reflected the dotted white lane markers on the chrome bumper, hoovering up lines like a Main Street junkie.
Shane was trying to sleep in the big blue crushed-velvet club chair, forward of the galley. Jody was stretched out on the bed in the rear compartment. Tremaine and Lester Wood were up front, engaged in whispered conversation, while Victory Smith was in the booth nursing a beer and brooding.
But Shane was restless. His mind kept touching the edges of new, soul-defining re...alities: Alexa's death, Chooch left in the wake of this catastrophe, the powerful memory of sex with Lisa--a woman he knew was corrupt and dangerous but whose darkness he was inexplicably drawn to.
When he thought about everything that had happened, he knew Jody was right.
If Tony was on the level, why would the LAPD be calling him a murderer on TV and making him a shoot-on-sight fugitive for every law-enforcement agency in America? The Day-Glo Dago had picked a scenario that eliminated Shane from the equation.MoreLess
Shane was trying to sleep in the big blue crushed-velvet club chair, forward of the galley. Jody was stretched out on the bed in the rear compartment. Tremaine and Lester Wood were up front, engaged in whispered conversation, while Victory Smith was in the booth nursing a beer and brooding.
But Shane was restless. His mind kept touching the edges of new, soul-defining re...alities: Alexa's death, Chooch left in the wake of this catastrophe, the powerful memory of sex with Lisa--a woman he knew was corrupt and dangerous but whose darkness he was inexplicably drawn to.
When he thought about everything that had happened, he knew Jody was right.
If Tony was on the level, why would the LAPD be calling him a murderer on TV and making him a shoot-on-sight fugitive for every law-enforcement agency in America? The Day-Glo Dago had picked a scenario that eliminated Shane from the equation.MoreLess
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