CHAPTER FOURTEENDesmond Richelieu wasn’t as unhappy as Lindsey expected. First thing Monday morning, Lindsey bit the bullet and phoned Richelieu in Denver. He’d learned less about the McKinney killing than he’d hoped to, and he was ready to get dressed down for lack of progress. But the movie was under way. That was International Surety’s interest.
Lindsey pulled some more SPUDS work off the fax from Denver. There were lingering problems from the Loma Prieta earthquake of ’89. When the Cypress Freeway collapsed, was the state responsible or were the insurance companies? All the insurers had got together and they were trying to straighten that out.
And the Oakland Hills fire of ’91 had generated a folder full of disputes. International Surety and most of the other companies had paid their
