Chapter 24
HERMAN, driving one-handed, kept playing with the handcuffs, clicking them open and shut like a kid with a new collapsible puzzle.
McCloud reached through the open partition and relieved him of the cuffs. “You’re making me nervous.”
Herman was indignant. “How can I go on respectin’ you if you’re gonna be like that? What the hell have we got to be nervous about?”
“You ought to know,” McCloud told him. “You just conked the toughest d**k on the force, and if you think he won’t remember your ugly mug and also your license number you’re crazier than I think you are.”
Herman thought about this for a moment. Finally he arrived at what he thought was an optimistic conclusion.
“But how would he know it was me? I was behind him when I threw it, wasn’t I?”
McCloud groaned. “He’ll fi
