A Walk Among the Tombstones Page #2

Now 50 keys, at 20 a key,

run the numbers for me.

Comes out to a million, doesn't it?

What's your point?

My point?

My point is that you'd pay a million

for her if she were product.

If she was powder, Mr. Kristo.

Isn't she worth as much

to you in flesh and blood?

I can't pay what I don't have.

How much do you have?

Four hundred.

Five.

I'm not haggling. I gave you

the top figure right away.

It's 400.

Oh, well.

That's the best you can do.

Okay. Four hundred it is.

Before I give you anything, I want

to make sure my wife is all right.

Well, that's impossible.

I'm at a pay phone.

How do I even know you've

got her in the first place?

Are you familiar with her tits?

Excuse me?

They're quite nice. Would

you recognize one of them?

That would be the easiest way.

I could cut one off.

The one with the cute little mole on it.

And I'll leave it on your doorstep.

- Would that put your mind at rest?

- Jesus, don't say that.

All right, then let's not talk

any more about proof, okay?

Put the money in two hefty bags.

Go to the corner of

Columbia and Commerce

to the pay phone and wait for my call.

Hello.

Where's the money?

In the back seat.

Two bags, like you said.

Good. Now leave it.

Walk up Columbia to Richards Street.

And then what?

Wait on the corner for five minutes,

then walk back,

get in your car and go home.

Well, what about my wife?

She'll be in the car waiting for you.

Carrie?

F***.

And they run me around, then finally

they tell me she's at home, waiting for me.

I go home and she's not there either.

Carrie!

The phone rings again.

F***!

Where is she?

They send me over to Red Hook.

Tell me she's in the trunk

of this abandoned car.

They taped this to the

inside of the trunk

with a note that said

"for your listening pleasure."

That's my number.

It's okay.

Look at these. Look at these.

I touch them and the nipples get hard.

You get hot even when

you're scared, don't you?

And kiss me.

Yeah. Come on,

let's take the tape off of her.

Hey, Carrie Anne

Can anybody...

Yes?

Where in Red Hook?

She tipped me $2, which is twice

what anybody else tips,

if they even tip at all.

You mentioned a van.

Yeah. It was parked right there.

Two guys got out of it.

I remember they checked

her out pretty good.

They were both dressed the same,

some kind of uniform.

They pulled out after Mrs. Kristo,

cut off a Caddy.

- You remember what the van looked like?

- Yeah.

It was light blue.

It was definitely light blue.

I could tell she was a good cook.

Nothing frozen in her cart.

She said she was making kunafa, so I sent

her to the Lebanese place down the block.

Yeah, the van was

parked across the street.

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