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Shelby Jeff

Книга "Liquid Smoke"

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  1. Private eye Noah Braddock has finally found peace in hi...
    1. ...
    2. Private eye Noah Braddock has finally found peace in his once tumultuous relationship with De...
    3. LIQUID SMOKE Jeff Shelby ...
    4. The Last Day of February I wondered how it had come to this. ...
    5. WEEK ONE ...
    6. ONE “You have an admirer,” Liz Santangelo said. She and I were on...
    7. TWO I staked out a spot near the jetty, where the nice right break that...
    8. THREE I walked out of the ocean, the board tucked under my arm and Darc...
    9. FOUR “You said Simington might have been working for someone,” I said, ...
    10. FIVE I showered, dressed, made a sandwich, and sat down in front of the...
    11. SIX I spent the next day poking around on the computer and at the libra...
    12. SEVEN We spent the night at my place, and I was awake at four in the mo...
    13. EIGHT The flight was bumpy and rough as the plane navigated the thick m...
    14. NINE Two blocks away from Miranda, I waved down a taxi. I didn’t know w...
    15. TEN I walked out of San Quentin feeling like I’d just been sprung. The ...
    16. ELEVEN I gave the driver directions back to the offices of Gill and Gil...
    17. TWELVE My return flight wasn’t until the following morning. I tried to ...
    18. THIRTEEN Thirty minutes later, an army of cops was wrapping yellow crim...
    19. FOURTEEN Zanella toppled over the retaining wall and onto my patio, rip...
    20. FIFTEEN Liz and I walked up the boardwalk, away from the chaos that had...
    21. SIXTEEN We’d arrived at my place just as Carter came barreling down the...
    22. SEVENTEEN I hung out on the boardwalk for an hour, moping and worrying....
    23. EIGHTEEN The lights on the Coronado Bridge shone brightly in the early ...
    24. NINETEEN I slept restlessly, images of Darcy Gill and Russell Simington...
    25. TWENTY Lakeside was a small community on the eastern outskirts of San D...
    26. TWENTY-ONE “Commotion?” Carter asked when the elevator let us out in th...
    27. TWENTY-TWO One of the suits took me by the arm. Not roughly, but more l...
    28. TWENTY-THREE Ross took us down a long hallway to a corner office. He kn...
    29. TWENTY-FOUR “He was completely full of shit, right?” Carter asked as we...
    30. TWENTY-FIVE The next day, I decided on a different tact. I was frustrat...
    31. TWENTY-SIX We sat there in silence for a few minutes, and I felt like a...
    32. TWENTY-SEVEN I stopped for a sandwich at a deli on Grand before venturi...
    33. TWENTY-EIGHT “What do you know about the two men Simington killed?” I a...
    34. TWENTY-NINE I told Miranda she could stay with me. “Don’t get you...
    35. THIRTY We went back to her place, cleaned ourselves up, and walked down...
    36. THIRTY-ONE To find El Centro, you head east on I-8 and push through the...
    37. THIRTY-TWO “Do you know Keene?” I asked Asanti as we drove away from Lu...
    38. THIRTY-THREE Liz and I made the long drive back to San Diego, the silen...
    39. WEEK TWO ...
    40. THIRTY-FOUR I spent the night with Liz and got up early the next mornin...
    41. THIRTY-FIVE I caught an early-evening flight to San Francisco, and by t...
    42. THIRTY-SIX Simington rubbed a finger over the tattoo of my name on his ...
    43. THIRTY-SEVEN I set Simington’s advice aside for the moment. “You need a...
    44. THIRTY-EIGHT Detective Ken Kenney held out a stick of gum outside San Q...
    45. THIRTY-NINE As my plane descended half an hour late into San Diego, thi...
    46. FORTY Keene had gotten into my head. As I drove away from the air...
    47. FORTY-ONE We sat quiet for a few minutes, listening to the water tap ag...
    48. FORTY-TWO I left Carolina’s and spent a couple hours busying myself wit...
    49. FORTY-THREE Thick gray clouds hung outside Liz’s window when I woke the...
    50. FORTY-FOUR When it rains in Southern California, we drive as though we’...
    51. FORTY-FIVE Call it maturity. Call it good decision making. Call it what...
    52. FORTY-SIX Ringing. In the distance. I forced my eyes open. ...
    53. FORTY-SEVEN I dialed Carolina’s number twice as I sped from Mission Bea...
    54. FORTY-EIGHT “Noah?” Carolina said, lowering the gun and looking at us l...
    55. FORTY-NINE “Wellton!” I screamed into the phone as Carter and I flew do...
    56. FIFTY She was on the bed and, in the dark, appeared to be sleeping. I m...
    57. FIFTY-ONE Commotion. People were coming and going. Carter sat nex...
    58. FIFTY-TWO I don’t know how long we stayed at Liz’s. I know that I tried...
    59. FIFTY-THREE Flashbulbs kept going off in my head, showing me snapshots ...
    60. FIFTY-FOUR My eyes opened, and the daylight forced me to squeeze them s...
    61. WEEK THREE ...
    62. FIFTY-FIVE Police funerals are like parades. Everyone gets dresse...
    63. FIFTY-SIX “What are we going to do?” Carter asked. We were headed...
    64. FIFTY-SEVEN I walked into my living room and saw Klimes, Zanella, and W...
    65. FIFTY-EIGHT A knock on the door the next morning startled me out of bed...
    66. FIFTY-NINE It was two AM, and I wasn’t sleeping. I’d wasted a who...
    67. SIXTY The rain was pounding the beach the next morning, but I decided t...
    68. SIXTY-ONE “I need to get going,” Carter said. “Let me know what you dec...
    69. SIXTY-TWO The fire department needed most of the day to clean up the al...
    70. SIXTY-THREE It took two more nights before I could shake free. The poli...
    71. SIXTY-FOUR I figured hanging out in the casino would be a good way to g...
    72. SIXTY-FIVE Carter had the truck waiting in front of the casino when I w...
    73. WEEK FOUR ...
    74. SIXTY-SIX Carter and I spent the rest of the day making plans. We neede...
    75. SIXTY-SEVEN For three days, I wandered around the Vasquez home, looking...
    76. SIXTY-EIGHT I drove east on the highway, then south without a road, unt...
    77. SIXTY-NINE “I don’t see it,” Carter said. “Me either.” We were st...
    78. SEVENTY I drove back to San Diego feeling numb and empty. All of things...
    79. SEVENTY-ONE The prison looked different. When I’d visited last, i...
    80. SEVENTY-TWO Security was tighter. I was patted down twice, and my ID wa...
    81. SEVENTY-THREE The nurse in the prison infirmary wanted to stitch the cu...
    82. SEVENTY-FOUR My cell phone rang as soon as I turned it on, stepping off...
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