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Название книги: Silent Prey
Автор(ы): John Sandford
Жанр: Криминальный детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Silent-Prey-192229.html
CHAPTER1
A thought sparked in the chaos of Bekker's mind.The jury.He caught it, mentally, like a quick hand snatching a fly from midair.Bekker slumped at the defense table, the center of the circus. His vacant blue eyes rolled back, pale and wide as a plastic baby-doll's, wandering around the interior of the courtroom, snagging on a light fixture, catching on an electrical outlet, sliding past the staring faces. His hair had been cut jailhouse short, but they had let him keep the wild blond beard. An act of mercy: the beard disguised the tangled mass of pink scar tissue that crisscrossed his face. In the middle of the beard, his pink rosebud lips opened and closed, like an eel's, damp and glistening.Bekker looked at the thought he'd caught: The jury. Housewives, retirees, welfare trash. His peers, they called them. A ridiculous concept: he was a doctor of medicine. He stood at the top of his profession. He was respected. Bekker shook his head.Understand…?The word tumbled from the judge-crow's mouth and ec
Название книги: Silent Prey
Автор(ы): John Sandford
Жанр: Криминальный детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Silent-Prey-192229.html
CHAPTER1
A thought sparked in the chaos of Bekker's mind.The jury.He caught it, mentally, like a quick hand snatching a fly from midair.Bekker slumped at the defense table, the center of the circus. His vacant blue eyes rolled back, pale and wide as a plastic baby-doll's, wandering around the interior of the courtroom, snagging on a light fixture, catching on an electrical outlet, sliding past the staring faces. His hair had been cut jailhouse short, but they had let him keep the wild blond beard. An act of mercy: the beard disguised the tangled mass of pink scar tissue that crisscrossed his face. In the middle of the beard, his pink rosebud lips opened and closed, like an eel's, damp and glistening.Bekker looked at the thought he'd caught: The jury. Housewives, retirees, welfare trash. His peers, they called them. A ridiculous concept: he was a doctor of medicine. He stood at the top of his profession. He was respected. Bekker shook his head.Understand…?The word tumbled from the judge-crow's mouth and ec
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