"Steve Perry - Matador 7 - Brother Death" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Steven)

"Yeah?"

She hefted the spring gun in her hand, looked at it, then at her brother. "This is mine," she said.

"That's fine, I don't have any use for it."

"No, I mean it's mine. This is my service pistol. My number, my initials, right there."

Bork blinked and thought about that for a second. "How'd he get it?" He nodded at the unconscious man.

"Now there's the question of the hour," she said. " 'How?' indeed."

When Emile and Juete arrived, the local cools had already hauled the unconscious would-be assassin
away to the local medical kiosk for repair. Juete went to see her daughter and grandson. While Taz
talked to the officer in charge of the investigation, Bork explained the situation as best he could to his
father-in-law.

"Your sister have enemies who would follow her all the way from Tembo to Muto Kato?"

Bork shrugged. "I dunno. She's the assistant Chief of Investigators for High Crimes, whatever they are
on Tembo. Could be she stepped on somebody's toes there. Goes with the job, she says."

Emile Khadaji nodded. As the legendary freedom fighter called The Man Who Never Missed, he knew
about such things.

"Well, nobody was hurt, that's good. Anything we can do to help Saval . . ."

Bork nodded. "Thanks, boss." It was an old habit; he hadn't really worked for Khadaji for years, but
once upon a time a long way back, Bork had been a bouncer in The Jade Flower, the headquarters for
the revolution that eventually toppled the Confed. Another lifetime. "I'll talk to her about it."

So Khadaji went to see his grandson and Bork went to see his sister and the local cools.

"So, you figure out who he is yet?"

The Katoan policeman had a belt reader scanning the ID cube taken from the fallen man, but he shook
his head. "Fake," he said, waving the reader.



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"Taz?"

She shrugged. "I didn't get a real good look at him before somebody sanded his face off," she said. She
grinned. "Hell of a sidewalk tattoo."

Bork returned the smile.