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  89. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“He almost killed her by hitting her with a hammer, Russell. And then he covered up her death afterward.” I thought a moment. “But he certainly wasn’t the brains of the outfit. Considering his age, I’ll cut him a little slack. Aggravated kidnapping and attempted murder, five to life, but I’ll stipulate to fifteen years and write a letter to the parole board. The offer’s good for today. Otherwise I keep the homicide charges and go forward on conspiracy to commit homicide and accessory after the fact. Might even hand it over to the feds and let them seek the death penalty.”

He nodded. “No need, he’ll take it.” He motioned toward Nathan with his head. “What about him?”

“Him, I’m going to put in prison for the rest of his life. And I’m going to charge every man that took advantage of that girl with statutory rape. Including the mayor.” I grinned. “He’s giving a press conference this afternoon, and he’s getting a little surprise visit from the boys in blue when he comes off that podium.”

I gazed at Nathan Ficco in the back of a police cruiser. Venom was shooting out of his eyes at me, and I winked at him. I turned away and folded my arms, staring at Pritcher.

“I’m just willing to bet I’m not going to find any evidence about how you convinced Steven to lie on the stand, but if I do, Russell, I’m coming after you, too.”

He chuckled, his eyes never wavering from mine. “Well, I would say it was a pleasure, but it certainly wasn’t. I still think you’re a traitor to your profession, but you seemed to do well in this one instance.” He brushed something off my suit. “Take care of yourself, Tatum.”

I watched him leave, and then I turned to Nathan’s house. Anderson and his family would have to find a life without Nathan, but from what I’d seen, Nathan was a tyrant anyway. They would be better off.

Will came out of the house and over to me and said, “Arrest warrant was executed properly. I think we should start holding some seminars on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments for the city and county cops. They need to learn what they’re doing.”

“Cool. I think I know the perfect prosecutor to head that up, too.”

“Me? I don’t know. I’m not very good at public speaking.”

“You’ll do great. Besides, you gotta have the backing of the cops if you’re gonna be mayor one day.”

“Mayor?”

“Call me psychic, but I see politics in your future. And I think this town could use someone like you.”

I turned to get into my car and Will said, “Tatum? Thanks, man. For . . . I don’t know. Just being here, I guess.”

“You can buy me a beer tonight when we go out to celebrate.”

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