Chapter 72

The bartender assured him that Juice was the right woman for him to find if he had a case in Salem. Of course, Smith had not told the man that he had a deal in Salem; he had simply said that a colleague of his was running into trouble trying to find information in Salem. The man was glad to help him; after all, Smith was also dreaming of doing everything possible to break away from his illegal deals at the bar.

Apart from the document he had found in the man’s drawer after his death, Martin had always been the kind of man who was more reasonable and tended to do things his own way, at his own pace. Although sometimes laboriously slow, the man had a way of paying attention to procedures at one time and deciding things on his own the next time. Sometimes Smith found him hard to read; other times he was an open book.

After the recommendation the bartender had given, Smith contacted Juice and tested her too. Juice had not been as easy to convince as Sky. First of all, the wo