CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURSometimes you phone ahead. Usually you phone ahead. It’s good business practice. It’s in the International Surety Operations Manual. But as Ducky Richelieu had told the SPUDS class in Denver, as far as violating policy was concerned, you only get in trouble when you get in trouble. The middle of the pack is full of rule followers. The big winners and the big losers are the rule breakers.
Lindsey drove to Holy City first thing in the morning. The Jeep Grand Wagoneer stood clean and sparkling on the blacktop. There was plenty of room beside it, where a dark green Oldsmobile had stood during Lindsey’s last visit.
Nellie Crump was kneeling in front of a rose bush. When Lindsey climbed from his Hyundai and closed the door, she stood up and turned around. She could have been
