By Elmore Leonard
Lovely working-girl Jackie Burke is in a decent spot. She's simply been picked up at Palm seashore foreign with fifty grand and a few blow stashed in her flight bag. Lucky for her, the Feds wish anything Jackie's got: the within tune to Ordell Robbie, the notoriusly slick palms dealer. And they're able to deal--Ordell in trade for her freedom. But Jackie's obtained one other ace up her sleeve. . .Enter Max Cherry, bail bondsman. Big, difficult, essentially respectable Max is at the verge of divorce and bored with the standard grind. That's the place Jackie comes in. The fifty sizeable ones are peanuts in comparison to what Ordell's obtained locked away in Freeport. But whilst a blowsy blond blowhead and a none-too-bright ex con try and muscle in at the motion, it's time to tug and previous bait and switch--where the nice men are performed off opposed to the undesirable guys--and the place Jackie and Max wish to stroll off into the Florida sundown with a scorching part million in chilly funds.
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Why, she wants,” Nelson says, getting wild-eyed and high-voiced, defensive and, to his mother, touching, “she wants what everybody wants. ” Ronnie turns to Janice conspiratorially. “He’s as off the rails as his old man. ” “Love does seem a bit much,” Janice allows. Rabbit Remembered 49 “I’ll go look her up myself, then,” Nelson threatens. “A. Byer. ” “Nelson, believe me,” Ronnie says, trying to act the father, “there’s nothing in it for you but heartbreak. ” “It wasn’t only agony,” Nelson argues.
His hair, brushed straight back, is going white but his bushy eyebrows are still black. Rabbit Remembered 61 The wife speaks up: “Even as a little boy, though, he stood apart a little. He would play with others, but then wander away and come inside. ’ As if he didn’t see the point of people. He was quiet. ” “My wife imagines things in hindsight,” Mr. DiLorenzo says, sitting back erect, his eyes enlarged by thick spectacles, eyes frayed to death from closely inspecting fabric. “He was a perfectly normal boy.
They tell me I told the dean or somebody he was the Whore of Babylon. ” He snickers a little, testing the face opposite his. “Michael,” Nelson says in firm conclusion. The boy was bragging now, bullying. When you feel uncomfortable, Howie has told him, trust your gut. Get off the horse. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that you are faithful with your medications. I’ve made a note here to Dr. ” “I drank beer and tequila at Penn,” Michael tells him, uncertainly standing, sensing he is dismissed and being relieved yet not, unsatisfied, uncured.