The Bookman's Promise
““Hey, Cliff.”
“Who is this?” I said belligerently.
I knew quite well who it was: I could pick his laid-back voice out of a crowd, but this late at night it could be nothing but trouble. Neal Hennessey had been my partner in homicide. We had been close friends a few years ago, and for a while after my abrupt exit from the Denver cops we had kept up the pretense that nothing had changed between us. Occasionally I bought him a lunch for old times’ sake; sometimes we would go for a beer in a bar we liked on West Colfax near the Rocky Mountain News. But those times had become fewer and farther between. Months had passed since I’d last seen his beefy face, but I was an outsider now and that’s how cops are.
“We got one on the north side,” Hennessey said. “It’s not my case but your name came up and the primary officer remembered what a dynamic duo we used to be. So I got a call on it.”
I still didn’t put it together. Who did I know on the north side? A few years ago it had been a hotbed of lo...cal mobsters and I had helped put one of them away, but how could that come back to haunt me after all this time?MoreLess
“Who is this?” I said belligerently.
I knew quite well who it was: I could pick his laid-back voice out of a crowd, but this late at night it could be nothing but trouble. Neal Hennessey had been my partner in homicide. We had been close friends a few years ago, and for a while after my abrupt exit from the Denver cops we had kept up the pretense that nothing had changed between us. Occasionally I bought him a lunch for old times’ sake; sometimes we would go for a beer in a bar we liked on West Colfax near the Rocky Mountain News. But those times had become fewer and farther between. Months had passed since I’d last seen his beefy face, but I was an outsider now and that’s how cops are.
“We got one on the north side,” Hennessey said. “It’s not my case but your name came up and the primary officer remembered what a dynamic duo we used to be. So I got a call on it.”
I still didn’t put it together. Who did I know on the north side? A few years ago it had been a hotbed of lo...cal mobsters and I had helped put one of them away, but how could that come back to haunt me after all this time?MoreLess
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