“I doubt Kellerman said anything like that,” Mac said dryly.
“Well, he said you could be reasoned with,” the voice acknowledged. “What will it take to reason with you?”
“Let the woman and Maxim loose,” Mac said.
Parker snorted. “Do you realize how much trouble I can cause you? I can make your life hell.”
“Seems to me the trouble is going your way,” Mac sparred.
“Minor inconveniences,” Parker said. “Let’s try this: You persuade Brown to give up the package Maxim left with him. You drop the story, tell Warren that you all had mixed up a couple of DEA missions, and I’ll call back my men.”
“And in return, I get what?”
“I won’t destroy you.”
There was silence. I am sitting at this man’s cabin talking to him, Mac thought. Does he know where I am?
“And Donnelly?”
“The cops don’t have en
