The last person who came through that door had Sig Larkin right behind her. I told him and when I was finished I said,Slick? You sure you dont know anybody on the list? Oh-oh, Drake said. One of those things where everything went black, then she felt something jerking in her hand and heard loud banging noises. She looked down and found she was holding a gun, and there was John lying on the floor. She has no idea how he got there. She ran to him and said, John, John, speak to me. Oh, John, speak to me. So then she calls her lawyer. Its quite the place. Hes rich. He makes more every day than you do in a month. Was one of those women this defendant? Judge Hoyt asked. You cloned my card and had somebody walk in the door with my face on their body. Come on! You bought a company that can do exactly that. Stone got out his own weapon, opened the car door, and ran for it. It took him longer than he would have liked to get out his key and open the door. He closed it behind him and took a couple of deep breaths before he went upstairs to bed. I started thinkin, How come Gallops picked on me? I mean, shit, Im not the only frog in the pond. So I make a couple of long distance calls. Like I said, I ain’t got nothing else to do. I call Jimmy Horsely over in Philadelphia and Buck McCreight up in Boston. I figure maybe they might have a spot for me. But whaddya know, they’re just about to call me because the same thing’s happened to them just like it happened to me. They got dumped and they’re looking for jobs. And they tell me it ain’t no use callin’ Phil Leonard in New York or Sid Gershman out in L.A. or Jack Childers up in Chicago because they’re dumped, too, just like I was, except Gallops sent in more guys and spent a hell of a lot more money to get the job done in those places than he did here. Whaddya think of that? He didnt look at her or Devine. He merely said, Young people sometimes make... poor decisions. There were so many people there I had to park almost a block away. What the hell for? Chapter 10 Someone had thrown it down on the bank to the north of the house. Not fuckin likely. If they dont carry the big cities, then they dont carry the big states, and if they don’t carry New York, Illinois, California, Pennsylvania, and at least a couple of others, they’re fuckin’ dead come November second, right? He heard the front door open, and a few moments later Will Valentine poked his head into the kitchen. Im on network TV! He stepped across all the cables and around all the equipment to reach Ted, who sat in a wing chair in front of the massive stone fireplace. I would not have put him there. This advertised the wealth of the Bradshaws, something we tried to keep secret as much as possible. Devine snagged his bike helmet and went out the back door..