The Ways of Evil Men
“Amanda’s menu had billed it as pacu, but it looked suspiciously like piranha. Or maybe pacu and piranha were the same thing. She didn’t know and didn’t want to ask.
All her questions up to now had been about the vicissitudes of living on one of Brazil’s last frontiers and how the women coped with them. They coped, in fact, extremely well. They were rich. They had servants. They traveled. They had spacious houses and air conditioning, drank imported beverages, and ate imported foods. Theirs was ...anything but a hardscrabble existence. And it was boring as hell. It wouldn’t make for a decent story.
She was about to ask her first important question of the afternoon, and had just turned to Patricia Toledo to do it, when she felt the vibration of her phone.
She excused herself and took it from the hip pocket of her jeans. It was Nataniel, calling from Belem.
“We got the results,” the bureau chief said. “Congratulations.”
“I’m on to something?”
“You sure as hell are. There’s enough mercury in just one of those little bottles to kill a whale.MoreLess
All her questions up to now had been about the vicissitudes of living on one of Brazil’s last frontiers and how the women coped with them. They coped, in fact, extremely well. They were rich. They had servants. They traveled. They had spacious houses and air conditioning, drank imported beverages, and ate imported foods. Theirs was ...anything but a hardscrabble existence. And it was boring as hell. It wouldn’t make for a decent story.
She was about to ask her first important question of the afternoon, and had just turned to Patricia Toledo to do it, when she felt the vibration of her phone.
She excused herself and took it from the hip pocket of her jeans. It was Nataniel, calling from Belem.
“We got the results,” the bureau chief said. “Congratulations.”
“I’m on to something?”
“You sure as hell are. There’s enough mercury in just one of those little bottles to kill a whale.MoreLess
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