Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
I don’t go there often. I spend less on a bottle of red wine than the place charges for a glass of decent scotch. That day I went. Ed Warburton had done me a favor as commander of the eleventh precinct when he could just as well have jailed me as a material witness, and had a round bought in his honor at the local cop hangout that evening. I’m unpopular there as a rule. The break had given me a chance to close out an my investigation I’d been working three weeks, and Warburton to clear up a police case that had hung fire for more than a year. When he called me at the office and asked me to meet him in the Hilton bar, I took out a loan and drove down. I didn’t ask why he’d chosen a spot so far from his home park. When a cop stumbles and falls on his sword, his colleagues give him a door-busting going-away party in a private room above a saloon and then the dustoff. It isn’t that they’re ashamed, or disapprove of what he did. Cops are superstitious and convinced that bad luck is contagious.
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