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One man had told him about those scenarios. ” Sure, Jack thought. … Then just before dinner, Jack was putting together footage for the local CBS affiliate, something to help make the public aware of its role in watching and informing, when he got the call telling him it was time to saddle up. “We’re on,” Drabinsky had said. ” Jack’s heart had kicked up a notch. ” “A little out of my way but I don’t want you to miss this. ” After he hung up, Jack immediately contacted his photographer Maxine and told her to meet them at the accident scene.
PART ONE Ride-Along 1 San Francisco, California “Pump two,” Leon said. ” “I see it,” Jamal Thomas replied. It was just after sunset and the battered old Camry was parked down the block from the Arco station on Mission Street. Jamal squinted through the dirty windshield at a shiny gray Land Rover that had just pulled up to the pumps. The driver had climbed out and crossed to the minimart, wallet in hand. Arab, from the look of him. Not just the skin color but the arrogance, the strut. He reminded Jamal of the movies he’d seen on YouTube of blacks in the 1960s, flexing their new legal rights, amped up by the power of numbers, ready for payback after centuries of being second-class.
In Granddad’s mind, watch repair didn’t quite cut it. ” They were sitting in the aft salon of Jack’s Aleutian 59 he’d dubbed the Sea Wrighter. He and Rachel had bought it during the real estate boom, with money she made from flipping houses. Jack had been a live-aboard for two years, since moving out of the house in Tiburon he’d shared with his ex-wife. He often marveled that his boat was almost double the size of Hemingway’s famous thirty-eight-foot Pilar. Named for his second wife, Pauline, whose nickname was Pilar, it was also the name of a pivotal character in For Whom the Bell Tolls.
