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Автор Michael Brandman
Jesse Stone [11]
Michael Brandman
NOVELS BY ROBERT B. PARKER
THE SPENSER NOVELS
(by Ace Atkins)
THE JESSE STONE NOVELS
(by Michael Brandman)
THE SUNNY RANDALL NOVELS
ALSO BY ROBERT B. PARKER
(with Joan H. Parker)
(with Raymond Chandler)
(with Joan H. Parker)
(with John R. Marsh)
ROBERT B. PARKER’S
FOOL ME TWICE
MICHAEL BRANDMAN
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Copyright © 2012 by the Estate of Robert B. Parker
All rights reserved.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
1
A warm fall breeze blew gently through the cruiser’s open windows.
The red and yellow leaves of the elms and maples fluttered haphazardly in the wind. Jesse raised his face to the early-morning sun.He noticed the car on his left, a late-model Audi A5 coupe, come to a complete stop beside him.
When the driver looked in his direction, Jesse nodded to him.
The Audi pulled away and proceeded through the intersection.
A Mercedes sedan barreled through the stop sign and broadsided the Audi. The Mercedes was doing at least fifty in a twenty-five-mile-per-hour zone.
The Audi collapsed into itself. The impact punched it off the road and into a ditch, where it bounced precariously a couple of times before sliding to an upright stop.
The alarm systems on both cars began to shriek. Front and side air bags deployed in a vicious rush of compressed air, pinning both drivers to their seats.
The Mercedes was driven by a young female. Jesse had seen her looking down as she ran the stop sign. She must have been texting.
He grabbed his cell phone and called the station.
Molly Crane answered.
