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problems, but I never had any idea it was this bad. I guess I just wasn't
looking at the flip side. Damn it, I'll quit the business. We'll move somewhere
with whatever we've got and start a security business or something far away from
here and G.O.D., Inc. I mean that."
"I know you do. Hey-you think I like this shit? I mean, gettin' killed, that's
always a risk when you're after a real bad dude, but what you said, 'bout bein'
beat or raped or have my brain scrambled-that's scary. But if I can do it, if I
can really do it, really pull it off, then I ain't never gonna doubt myself
again." I stopped a moment. "Besides, anytime before they put me under I have
real doubts, really think that there's no way this can be pulled off, I'll pull
out. And I want you there to make sure they listen. Hear?"
He sighed. "Okay. It's not that I don't trust and have full confidence in you,
babe-it's just that I don't trust or have any confidence in them. And I'll be
there-all the way through, just to make sure they hold up all the ends of their
bargain, and Bill's gonna be there as well. He's gonna pay if it goes wrong
because of his end."
Sam went out and found Markham and brought him back in.
"We made a decision, and it's firm," I told him. "Five million, same terms."
I was afraid Bill was gonna choke. "You have to be kidding!" he managed.
"It's chicken feed to the company if this is really that important, and if it
ain't, then I ain't gonna do it."
I never saw a white guy turn red before, but he finally got hold of himself.
"All right. By shifting some here and some there I can come up with it. Five
million. But not as before. Two and a half now and free and clear, come what
may. The other half only when a live Vogel is turned over to my security
agents."
"Done," I told him. "And both Sam and you are along on the scene from the word
go. That's the other part."
He looked puzzled. "I figured Sam would want in on the action, but why me?"
Sam looked up at him and gave a really evil grin. "So if your people act with
the incompetence and unreliability that they've shown in the past and because of
it anything happens to Brandy, I won't have to go far to wring your fucking
neck."

3.
Heaven Is for Thieves

I remembered to stop the mail and papers and get the bills paid up before we had
to leave. We had three days if we needed them, since all of this plan was based
on the time them girls was to go from that bastard in Virginia-that other
Virginia-up to Pennsylvania. Sam managed to tie up two cases, one of which was
gonna send up that little accountant for a long stretch, and pass the others off
to other agencies he trusted. Considerin' this was two and a half million bucks
no matter what, he didn't mind much if he pissed off a couple of clients.
The morning of the third day we met Bill and went down to the airport and caught
a flight west. First class, too, first time I ever rode that, and it was real
nice. The seats are real wide, the drinks are free, and the service is great,
but the food's just the same-they only make it look a little fancier.
At San Francisco, we changed to a private Learjet for the ride up to Oregon,
which was even fancier and more luxurious, but we wasn't on it long enough to