Carter Reed novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Count
When the recording stopped, nobody in the terminal said a word.
The enormous man in the corner had stood up sometime during it.
He crossed himself now, slowly, with a hand the size of a shovel, and sat back down.
"That is Giorgio Ferraro," the grey witness said at last, "telling men to keep a man breathing for his son."
"It's a phone," the young boss said.
He sounded less sure than he had a minute ago.
"A dead man's phone."
"Voices can be made to say anything now."
"Then ask the man who stood in the doorway," I said.
I looked at Carter.
He nodded to the guard on the crutch, who limped to the side door and opened it.
The second walked onto the loading floor between two dock men.
They had given him a clean shirt, and nobody had tied his hands.
He walked with his chin up and his eyes on the floor ahead of him.
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