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"Well--as a matter of interest--the loot said I could go up to twenty. Tell you what--we'll split the difference, make it fifteen."

"I won't argue," I said. "Okay, set it up."

* * *

I don't know what there is about me that makes life on the edge so tantalizing. It must somehow go back to my warped childhood, but that's another story--and one I don't want to go into, ever.

Before I'd left the office, I'd told my secretary, Liz Moore, the details. Liz and I had been together since high school days and knew all there was to know about each other.

"What do you know about electricity?" she asked.

"I know how to change a light bulb."

"I've heard that one before."

"Hell, Liz," I said. "It's only a diversion to get me in."

"Yeah? And then what do you do?"

"Take him out."

"Yeah? How?"

"I can't discuss the details. Mac swore me to secrecy."

"You don't know, do you?"

I hate it when she's right. "I know," I said. "Now let it go."

The devil her due, Liz usually knows when to back off. All she said was: "Well, then, be careful, won't you?"

"I always am."

Which was a lie. If I was careful I wouldn't be in this poker game in the first place, upping the ante with a pair of deuces. "Wait at your place," I said. "I'll be over later."

"I hope so," she said.

I packed the Glock, smaller than the Desert Eagle, but quicker to hand. In this case, with God only knows what kind of weapons I'd be facing, I'd be lucky if I could get it out of the rig before I bought the farm. It wasn't that I was awkward, I told myself, just that the 215 solid pounds--well, pretty solid--on my six feet one frame didn't make for agility.

* * *

Mac got me dressed in what was supposed to be an electrician's outfit, complete with wide leather belt and hard hat.

"No weapons," he said as he patted me down, removing the Glock and the harness.

"Put it in the kit," I said, pointing to the tool box.

Mac looked at me as if I were a rather backward child. "The first thing he'll do is search you," he said. "The second will be to search your kit."