Аннотация
Elmore Leonard
Freaky Deaky
Mankowski's last day on the job, two in the afternoon, two hours to go, he got a call to dispose of a bomb.
What happened, a guy by the name of Booker, a twenty-five-year-old super-dude twice-convicted felon, was in his Jacuzzi when the phone rang. He yelled for his bodyguard Juicy Mouth to take it.
"Hey, Juicy?" His bodyguard, his driver and his houseman were around somewhere.
"Will somebody get the phone?" The phone kept ringing.
The phone must have rung fifteen times before Booker got out of the Jacuzzi, put on his green satin robe that matched the emerald pinned to his left earlobe and picked up the phone. Booker said, "Who's this?" A woman's voice said, "You sitting down?" The phone was on a table next to a green leather wingback chair. Booker loved green. He said,
"Baby, is that you?" It sounded like his woman, Moselle.
Her voice said, "Are you sitting down? You have to be sitting down for when I tell ...
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