Maximum Bob (22 page)

“The holes you put in him,” Gibbs said, “it would be a second coming if he even twitched.”

“Leanne shot him too.”

“No, she didn’t.”

“I mean Wanda.”

“She didn’t either,” Gibbs said. “Can you imagine Leanne at the coroner’s hearing? Talking to news people after? Saying a colored girl who died a hundred and thirty-five years ago shot him? Did it ‘cause if I passed over now I’d have an awful time adjusting?”

“I like Leanne,” Kathy said, knowing what he was leading up to.

“Then don’t let her become an object of ridicule. You shot him twice. I shot him once. Okay? Can you live with that?”

“I suppose.”

“We’ll get our pictures in the paper and it won’t hurt either of us one bit.”

“I’m going to get fired for packing a gun.”

“Don’t worry about it. I’ll speak to Corrections.”

“I’m ready to leave anyway,” Kathy said. “I’m thinking of going into something else.”

“It’s time you did,” Gibbs said. “You know what you’d be good at? Law enforcement. I could work it for you, too. All the friends I have at the Sheriff’s Office? You’d be an investigator in no time. Listen, have supper with me this evening and we’ll talk it over. What do you say?”

About The Author

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lmore Leonard has written thirty-four novels, including such bestsellers as
Cuba Libre
,
Out of Sight
,
Riding the Rap
,
Pronto
,
Rum Punch
,
Get Shorty
, and
Glitz
. Many of his books have been made into movies and he has written numerous screenplays. He lives with his wife, Christine, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.