Contents (41)
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Author's Note:
- Wisdom Spring by Andrew Cunningham
- About the Author
After Tony killed Vlad, all hell broke loose and we knew it was time to go. Three of the Fordlandia guys had Tony cornered, and Bruce—who didn't even like Tony—shot one of them. I don't think he meant to, but Bruce wasn't so great with guns and I think it went off accidently. I figured that because Bruce dropped the gun and ran into the woods. He spent half the trip home crying like a baby about how he had killed a guy.
"Definitely a Honeycutt," I said.
Well, we hightailed it to the boat—the same boat we had hired to get there. They hung around because Tony had promised them a big payoff if they'd wait. In the end, he stiffed them, but that was Tony.
We made it back to New York a few weeks later, broke and tired. I thought Flanagan was going to kill us all, and he almost did, but somehow Tony talked him out of it. But we were done with Flanagan and he was done with us. We all got legit jobs, but with the knowledge that as soon as we got the word from Tony, we'd be involved in the biggest score anyone had ever seen.
Which brings me back to John. Tony put John in charge of hiding the treasure. We had to get out of there so fast, Tony didn't have time to do it. The plan was, when things quieted down, John was going to send Tony word of where it was hidden. And that's just what he did. A few months later Tony called us together with a plan. We had to rob a piece of art from the Brooklyn Museum. Tony and I did the heist, while Bruce acted as lookout. We were supposed to get one specific painting, but I said, "What the hell?" and took a whole pile of them.
John sent us instructions to where the treasure was hidden. Did he send us a letter with clear directions? No. Instead, he sent us a clue. A painting. The painting we were after in the museum. It was a clue, but really it was a "fuck you" message to Tony. Turns out John hated Tony (big surprise, everyone hated him). I saw the painting. There was nothing in it Tony didn't already know. Fordlandia, a rubber tree, a house that looked like all the others, and a headstone.
Anyway, things were hot for a while after the heist, so Tony gave the painting to Bruce and told him to hide it. Right after that, Bruce left town for a while; I think he found a good hiding place. As for me, I skipped town. I heard later that everyone assumed I was dead.
As for the others, Tony was killed a short time later. Bruce lasted a little while longer, but was killed in an accident. Last I heard about John, he left Fordlandia when Ford abandoned it. He developed some sort of fever and died before he could even leave Brazil.