False Negative (Hard Case Crime) - Plot & Excerpts
“Front row, center. You’ll taste ozone when the lights dim.” A younger man drinking Schmidt’s moved his head noncommittally. “Best seat in the house,” Flynn said, “aside from Conrad Franklin Palmer’s, and he would gladly change places with you.” The beer drinker looked at his watch. In the United States courthouse across Market Street a lackadaisical jury was deliberating racketeering charges against stewards from the Atlantic City racetrack. “Where will you be?” “New Haven.” Flynn peeled back a lapel, uncovering yellow pasteboards in an inside pocket. “Be a crime not to use these, too. I was talking to Professor Einstein on the anniversary of his coming to America, and I mentioned, I asked him did he know a way I could be in two places, the same time. Not with the technology presently available, he said, but see him again in thirty, forty years.” The beer drinker, whose name was Adam Jordan, said, “While you’re watching the Yalies roll over Princeton, who’s the Bulletin got to see Palmer die?”
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