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Название книги: Live Bait
Автор(ы): P. Tracy
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Live-Bait-194254.html
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It was just after sunrise and still raining when Lily found her husband’s body. He was lying faceup on the asphalt apron in front of the greenhouse, eyes and mouth open, collecting rainwater.Even dead, he looked quite handsome in this position, gravity pulling back the loose, wrinkled skin of his face, smoothing away eighty-four years of pain and smiles and worries.Lily stood over him for a moment, wincing when the raindrops plopped noisily onto his eyes.I hate eyedrops.Morey, hold still. Stop blinking.Stop blinking, she says, while she pours chemicals into my eyes.Hush. It’s not chemicals. Natural tears, see? It says so right on the bottle.You expect a blind man to read?A little grain of sand in your eye and suddenly you’re blind. Big tough guy.And they’re not natural tears. What do they do? Go to funerals and hold little bottles under crying people? No, they mix chemicals together and call it natural tears. It’s false advertising, is what it is. These are unnatural tears. A little bottle of lies.Shut up, old man.This is th
Название книги: Live Bait
Автор(ы): P. Tracy
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Live-Bait-194254.html
1
It was just after sunrise and still raining when Lily found her husband’s body. He was lying faceup on the asphalt apron in front of the greenhouse, eyes and mouth open, collecting rainwater.Even dead, he looked quite handsome in this position, gravity pulling back the loose, wrinkled skin of his face, smoothing away eighty-four years of pain and smiles and worries.Lily stood over him for a moment, wincing when the raindrops plopped noisily onto his eyes.I hate eyedrops.Morey, hold still. Stop blinking.Stop blinking, she says, while she pours chemicals into my eyes.Hush. It’s not chemicals. Natural tears, see? It says so right on the bottle.You expect a blind man to read?A little grain of sand in your eye and suddenly you’re blind. Big tough guy.And they’re not natural tears. What do they do? Go to funerals and hold little bottles under crying people? No, they mix chemicals together and call it natural tears. It’s false advertising, is what it is. These are unnatural tears. A little bottle of lies.Shut up, old man.This is th
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