Chapter 30
INTRODUCTIONS ARE QUICKLY MADE and within a few minutes we’re
piled into Georgie’s van. Suzanne rides up front while Roger and I occupy the back.
Georgie is driving. He’s wearing his usual uniform of Levis straight leg jeans,
cowboy boots, black all-cotton T under a worn jean jacket he’s probably owned
since high school. His long gray hair is tied back tight in a ponytail, and his
clean-shaven face is tanned from the sun, even though technically speaking,
he’s supposed to stay out of the sun since being diagnosed with skin cancer.
On the way to the hospital, George asks for our undivided
attention while he goes over the plan to steal Sissy. When he’s through, he
focuses his ice-blue eyes in the rearview so he can get a look at Roger.
“I’ve read all your books, Mr. Wal
