Chapter 12

For an instant, a chilling doubt swept over him. The skinny one—it seemed like this guy was a new dealer in the area since heersquo;d only heard the nickname a time or two before, all recently. The skinny one—that coulddescribe Ike. Even after three weeks of decent meals, the guy was still very thin. He’d been in town exactly twenty-three days. As far as Perry knew, he worked ten or twelve hours most days, and the rest of the time was either sleeping or doing chores around Perry’s. Still, Perry was on duty for ten hours or more five days a week and sometimes got called out on his days off. There was a lot of time he had no way to know where Ike was or what he was doing…