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wanted him back so bad." Well, to be fair to Angela, she wanted Frank Paco back because he was her
father, period, but she still had more ambition than Napoleon and twice the nerve.

"You think she'll be able to take over?"

"I'd make book on it. She's smart, moves fast, and if things work her way she'll have the whole
operation's coded account books sometime tomorrow. She sweet-talked little Opal into working for
her."

"What?"

"She traded Opal back to Chaven to get Paco out, but Opal's not staying long."

"My God," said Escott, his tone full of admiration rather than dismay. "Between the two of them they
could have the city in hand by the end of next week."

I was going to say he was probably overstating things on that point, but shut up. Opal, Kyler's former
accountant, was the best soldier in Angela's small army. Never mind all the gun-packing goons, brute
force was nothing compared to a balanced ledger sheet showing all the profits, and Opal could do
numbers the way the rest of the world breathesтАФwithout even thinking about it.

"Let's continue to assume that despite these distractions Miss Paco is still in a murderous frame of mind
toward us," said Escott after a minute.

"Toward you," I put in. "She thinks I'm dead, courtesy of Chaven."

"Unless Deiter talks with her."

"He might think I'm dead, too. A swim at this time of yearтАж"

"Yes, yes. And we know for certain that it was an obvious trap Shoe and I were driving into."

"Told you so," Coldfield muttered. "If Fleming hadn't been weaving on the road like a New Year's drunk
we'd be in the lake by now, too."

"Angela will still have a hit out on you, Charles," I said. "She thinks you're a loose end."

"So I am."

"You're pretty cool about it."

"Part of the job," he said with a shrug of his eyebrows. "Right, I've not shown up for my meeting with
her, she'll assume I'm onto her game and expect me to go to ground or to the police, or both, which
means she will likely also drop from sight for a bit until things settle. All we need to do is discover where
she might go."

"Good luck," said Coldfield with a snort. "What do you do when you find her?"

Escott looked at me. One eyebrow twitched a question.