Unlucky in Law
“Alex Zhukovsky did not reappear in the hall outside Courtroom 2.
The falseness of the bomb threat was almost as tormenting as a real bomb would have been, Nina reflected. Judicial processes shot to hell, people standing around on hot sidewalks, judges sent scurrying, police standing helplessly around—it made fools of them all.
And yet, Zhukovsky's absence was one real and cautionary result. The jurors had been kept corralled at the Honeybee throughout; the reporters weren't going anywhe...re; Stefan had eaten his tuna salad sandwich at the police station. Zhukovsky was the only one missing.
Nina and Paul debated what to do. They had spent the interim calling Klaus's wife, Anna, a sensible psychoanalyst who sent a minion over to take Klaus home for a long nap. He had been overexcited and maybe worse than that. He only agreed to go after Nina promised him faithfully that she would get him a copy of Constantin Zhukovsky's death certificate.MoreLess
The falseness of the bomb threat was almost as tormenting as a real bomb would have been, Nina reflected. Judicial processes shot to hell, people standing around on hot sidewalks, judges sent scurrying, police standing helplessly around—it made fools of them all.
And yet, Zhukovsky's absence was one real and cautionary result. The jurors had been kept corralled at the Honeybee throughout; the reporters weren't going anywhe...re; Stefan had eaten his tuna salad sandwich at the police station. Zhukovsky was the only one missing.
Nina and Paul debated what to do. They had spent the interim calling Klaus's wife, Anna, a sensible psychoanalyst who sent a minion over to take Klaus home for a long nap. He had been overexcited and maybe worse than that. He only agreed to go after Nina promised him faithfully that she would get him a copy of Constantin Zhukovsky's death certificate.MoreLess
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