To Play the Fool

By Laurie R. King

The Edgar-award successful writer of A Grave expertise returns with Kate Martinelli in a narrative of the San Francisco homeless and Brother Erasmus, a pacesetter who brings pleasure into desolate lives--and may even be a assassin.

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He was—he were a cutthroat businessman, in land hypothesis and improvement. He was once happy with his…shady dealings. while he got here onto the streets, he remained…sly and manipulative. in lots of methods, i feel he derived extra excitement from controlling the…destitute and the downtrodden than he had from breaking his company opponents. “When I got here to San Francisco in August, a 12 months and a…half in the past, I…” He appeared by surprise to run dry of phrases. It took a second along with his eyes closed, whereas he hunted for the resource, prior to they started to circulation back. “I met John. He had in basic terms been the following a number of months himself. I knew instantly that there has been something…wrong with him, and as I watched him stream between his friends—and they have been neighbors, actual friends—I …felt he used to be like a jackal, looking forward to weak spot within the herd. I…avoided him as top i may, and we went our separate methods. until eventually November, All Saint’s Day, while one in all his sufferers attempted to devote suicide. “The guy recovered, yet anything needed to be performed. So, I provided myself to John. I allowed him to imagine I possessed a very good and lousy mystery that would…devastate me have been it to develop into recognized. there has been one of these mystery, in fact, yet I enormously exaggerated the consequences of public wisdom to make it more…appealing to John. I…dropped tricks to motivate him to be aware of me. i didn't cease his…activities totally, yet I…became his major concentration. ” “How a lot did he discover? ” Hawkin requested quietly. “I don't imagine he knew the whole tale. He could make guesses, and that i might react, you spot? He knew there were deaths, in an instructional surroundings. He knew I felt chargeable for these deaths. i feel he employed an investigator; a guy used to be asking questions on me, approximately 8 months in the past. yet no, i believe he might have enable me comprehend in…clear methods had he identified the total fact. “It succeeded, in distracting him from others. The most…unpleasant a part of the affair was once his expanding experience of intimacy with me. now not bodily, after all, yet emotionally. He took to confiding in me, as I acknowledged, recounting the main points of his prior company coups. He suggestion it fun to take whatever from one other, no matter if he didn't really wish it. He instructed me a protracted tale as soon as, how he had stolen away the spouse of a rival, observed them divorced, after which refused to marry her. He hottest to spoil something instead of see it within the palms of one other. a truly twisted guy. ” He stopped back, permitting his head to fall again opposed to Eve Whitlaw’s shoulder. “Can i am getting you whatever? ” Kate requested. “Coffee? a tumbler of water? ” He smiled at her along with his eyes and shook his head minutely ahead of on reflection at Hawkin. “I wish you're recording this,” he acknowledged. “I’m unlikely to inform it two times. ” “We’re recording it. ” “Good. So. That was once John. You had to be aware of. ” “What used to be his actual identify? ” “John used to be his center identify. Alexander John Darcy, of fortress worthy, Texas. i assumed of him as John Chrysostom, who used to be known as ‘Golden-Mouthed. ’ Now i'm going to let you know what i do know approximately his demise. “John had a brother who lived close to castle worthy.

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