Rag and Bone (34 page)
Authors: Michael Nava
I came into my house and heard the TV going.
I called out, “Have you done your homework?”
“I’m doing it,” Angel said.
I came into the living room and found him with his math book opened in his lap while he watched a playoff game between the Giants and the Braves.
“I can see that. Who’s winning?”
“Giants, eight to six. I’ll do my math when the game is over. Mom’s working night shift so I’m staying over, okay?”
“What do you want for dinner?”
“Pizza. Is John coming over?”
“Not tonight.”
He glanced at me. “How come you and John don’t live together? Then he’d be here all the time.”
“We probably will someday, but for now we each have reasons to have separate houses. How was school?”
“Ssh. The game’s starting. I’ll tell you after. Sit down and watch, okay?”
I took off my coat and tie, kicked off my shoes and sat down beside him. I draped my arm around his shoulder and he scooted up against me. Barry Bonds came to the plate, and on a full count sent a ball sailing over the wall at Pac Bell Park and into San Francisco Bay. Angel, cheering for the California team even if it wasn’t the Dodgers, hooted happily.
“That’s going to be me someday, Uncle Henry,” he said excitedly.
“I know,” I replied. “And I’ll be in the stands cheering.”
T
HIS BOOK BRINGS TO
an end this series of mysteries and my career as a mystery writer. In past books, I have thanked the many people who have helped me. Again I thank my agent, Charlotte Sheedy; my editor, Neil Nyren; my trusted colleagues, Katherine V. Forrest, Paul Reidinger, Robert Dawidoff; and all the other people who have helped bring these books to print over the years. In the writing of this particular book, I am also indebted to my dear friend Dr. Rod Hayward, for explaining to me the clinical aspects of myocardial infractions, and to Greg Wolff, who was kind enough to share his personal experience of recovery from an M.I. It also seems appropriate to give thanks to my readers, who, by your support, have created a place for these books in the tumultuous literary marketplace.
Michael Nava
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2001 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.
cover design by Angela Goddard
978-1-4532-9775-9
This edition published in 2013 by Open Road Integrated Media
180 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
FROM OPEN ROAD MEDIA
Available wherever ebooks are sold
Open Road Integrated Media
is a digital publisher and multimedia content company. Open Road creates connections between authors and their audiences by marketing its ebooks through a new proprietary online platform, which uses premium video content and social media.
Videos, Archival Documents,
and
New Releases
Sign up for the Open Road Media newsletter and get news delivered straight to your inbox.
Sign up now at
FIND OUT MORE AT
FOLLOW US:
