“In due time, Mr. Coyne,” the voice answered. “And I trust you’re not planning anything fancy.”
“Fancy?”
“I intend to be very cautious about this, you see. I hold all the cards, don’t you agree?”
“Look, mister. I’m an attorney. I’m helping my client consummate a business deal. That’s all. Mr. Weston is an upstanding and honorable…”
“When there’s a quarter-million dollars at stake, nobody’s upstanding or honorable,” he interrupted. “Tomorrow at three, then.”
“How will I recognize you?”
“When I sit down with you, that will be me. If I turn out to be a lady, it’s not me.”
“May I please have your name?”
“See you at the Wursthaus.” There was a click at the other end of the line.
Ollie was staring at me as I hung up the phone. “So what’s his name?”
“He wouldn’t give it to me.”
“Jesus, Brady. The one thing I ask you to do is get his name. You should have gotten his name.”
“Easy for you to say,” I said. “You don’t have to get up in the morning.”
Ollie said he didn’t get it. Perry, leaning back against the bookshelves, smiled as if he did.
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Author’s Note
DR. ALBERT SAUBERMANN SHARED his expertise with me with infinite patience and plain language. Any technical errors here are mine, not his.
I leaned shamelessly on Rick Boyer and Betsy Rapoport throughout the project—for their instinct for my story, for their unerring eye for the cliché and the dull, and for their spiritual sustenance.
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