Interface
- Автор: Горес Джо
- Год: 1974
- Язык: английский
- Год: M. Evans & Company
- ISBN: 978-0-87131-146-7
- Жанр: Криминальные детективы
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Docker, Fargo explained to Harriss, was an old army buddy. He would make a damn good bag man. He could be trusted. So when a drug shipment arrived, Fargo set up a meeting: the drug courier, a chemist to test the drugs for purity, and Docker. All Docker had to do was hand over a briefcase full of money and collect the shipment. But Docker did more than that: the courier was found dead, the chemist beaten — the drugs and the money were gone. And Fargo had to answer to Harriss for Docker’s disappearance.
INTERFACE is the story of a chase: Harriss and Fargo both know that if they don’t stop Docker from getting out of San Francisco, they’ll never see the drugs or the money again. They’ll do anything to stop him — and Docker will do anything to keep from getting caught. But it’s also the story of Fargo, a man walking the tightrope between two lives, determined to survive in both.
“Goodbye, Docker,” he said aloud.
His tone was somewhat like the tone he had used the previous day, in bidding goodbye to a junkie whore named Robin whom he had once loved very deeply. Deeply enough to give her those few moments of regained humanity before she slipped through the wall.
Neil Fargo heard the voices of the garbagemen, exchanging cheery profanities with Emil. He walked out of the cold little cubicle into the empty California sunshine, moving like a professional athlete the day after his team has lost the playoff game. The purple bruise Maxwell Stayton’s fist had left on his cheekbone only heightened the illusion.
Then he straightened slightly, as if about to pass a reviewing stand, pointed a forefinger at Emil as if it were a gun, moved his thumb twice to make the gun go bang bang, and got into his Fairlane.
Externally, at least, he was merely a hard-nosed private detective who’d lost his leading client so he had to get out to hustle up some new business. Manhunting was what he did, and he was good at it.