Аннотация
Steve Martini
Compelling Evidence
This is the first of punishments, that no guilty man is acquitted if judged by himself.
— JUVENAL, ROMAN POET AND SATIRISTCHAPTER 1
From somewhere behind the scenes the lights in the chamber are turned on.
Dreyers nudges me. ‘Looks like the $64,00 °Challenge,” he says. This is low, directed to me, but others hear it. A little comic relief. There’s a titter of laughter from behind us, up on the risers. Johnston and the other guard don’t laugh.
Dreyers whispers, lower now, under his breath, to me only. “Pretty soon they’ll pop the question.”
I look at him.
“For $64,000-how long can you hold your breath?’ He gives me a little sideways wink. I can hear some giggling on the other side of Dreyers. Another cop, one of his buddies.
Bad taste, I think. But as I study the scene, he’s right. Now this room with its cupola-like top, lit on the inside like some Macy’s store window, does not res...
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