Thicker Than Water (A Leo Waterman Mystery)
“With his redrimmed eyes and his nostrils packed with toilet paper, he looked like a not-so-wild boar.
I reached out and took the phone. The screen read, “Blocked.”
“Yeah,” I said.
The voice on the other end was using one of those electronic voice transformers, available for under fifty bucks in any one of a hundred mail-order security catalogues. Turn it up high and you sound like Porky Pig. This guy had it set for low and slow, dropping his voice several octaves, to the point he sounded like h...e had a brain tumor.
He started to tell me what he wanted…something to do with a truck…but I cut him off, “No,” I said. “You’re getting it back, boat and all. Everything’s exactly where you put it. The exchange takes place out at the end of a dock someplace. You get the boat. I get the woman. You just tell me where and when and I’ll have it there.”
“Listen, asshole,” Robbie the Robot droned. “You’re not the one making the…”
I cut him off again. “I want to see her.MoreLess
I reached out and took the phone. The screen read, “Blocked.”
“Yeah,” I said.
The voice on the other end was using one of those electronic voice transformers, available for under fifty bucks in any one of a hundred mail-order security catalogues. Turn it up high and you sound like Porky Pig. This guy had it set for low and slow, dropping his voice several octaves, to the point he sounded like h...e had a brain tumor.
He started to tell me what he wanted…something to do with a truck…but I cut him off, “No,” I said. “You’re getting it back, boat and all. Everything’s exactly where you put it. The exchange takes place out at the end of a dock someplace. You get the boat. I get the woman. You just tell me where and when and I’ll have it there.”
“Listen, asshole,” Robbie the Robot droned. “You’re not the one making the…”
I cut him off again. “I want to see her.MoreLess
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