No Harm Can Come to a Good Man. James Smythe
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Название: No Harm Can Come to a Good Man
Автор: James Smythe
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Триллеры
isbn: 9780007541928
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‘Maybe,’ Deanna says. He nods and looks at the list, picks up a basket and goes off around the shop. There’s a pain in his movements that Deanna hasn’t noticed before, a slight favoring of one leg over the other.
‘I feel terrible making him do this for me,’ Deanna says to Martha.
‘Oh, don’t, Martha replies. ‘He needs to work it or it’ll fall off.’ She smiles. They watch him go down the aisles, and they talk about the kids, and they talk about the town, the same conversations that they always have, just moved on in time, like updates to the same old information. When every item has been collected, Trent scans them at the till. The calorie counts and nutrition values tick up on the screen, ClearVista predicting the weight gain and exercise needed to counter the richer, fattier foods; and then he brings up the total before adjusting it. They always do a discount for Deanna.
By the time she gets back to the car it’s been turned around, now facing the road. Ann comes out of the dark of the garage, holding something in her hand. It’s shiny and golden, a stub of a thing. Deanna thinks that it could be a bullet for a second but then she gets closer and it’s a screw. No: a bolt.
‘Found this inside her,’ Ann says. ‘Must’ve come loose, but I’m damned if I can find from where.’
‘From the engine?’
‘It’s not a car part, best I can tell. Maybe it got kicked up there one day from the road. Happens, you’d be surprised.’
‘Okay,’ Deanna says. ‘How much do I owe you?’
‘I changed your oil, so just for that. Give me ten and we’re even.’ She leans again on the hood.
‘You sure?’
‘Ayuh.’
Deanna pulls a twenty out of her purse and hands it over.
‘Consider the rest a tip.’
‘Ha! Okay. We’re giving tips, let me give one to you as well. You need to sell this soon, I reckon.’ She puts her hand on the roof of the car. ‘It’s a few years old now, and you’re losing money on it. All the new models, the tech’s much better. That stuff ages a car more’n you’d imagine. You’ll still get a good price for this right now. I ran it for you, if you want to have a look: software says this has got years left in it yet, but that the book value’s gonna plummet.’
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