Simply Lies by David Baldacci EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: David Baldacci
- Genre: Crime Thrillers
- Publish Date: 18 April 2023
- Size: 4 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
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MICKEY GIBSON WIPED THE SPIT-UP off Darby’s face, and then
gave her two-year-old daughter a plastic squeaky ball, hoping
that would hold her attention for a bit. The girl sat stoically in
her playpen, eyeing the toy like it was neither foe nor friend.
Gibson had learned in one of the many child development
books she had read that two-year-olds should be able to play
and entertain themselves for up to thirty minutes.
Whoever wrote that was on drugs, or else my kids have no
future as adults.
She was hoping for simply a five-minute respite, just to
finish her phone call.
Gibson hefted her three-year-old son, Tommy, who had
been doing his best to use his mom as a jungle gym, and
placed him on her thrust-out right hip. It was only eleven in
the morning and she was already exhausted.
She said into her headset, “Okay, Zeb, I’m back. Like I said
before, the paper trail is pretty clear. There’s at least two
hundred mill in six different bank accounts, three in Chad, one
in Bermuda, and two in Zurich. Larkin must know we’re
closing in, so he’s probably going to try to move that money
ASAP, and I may not be able to track it again.”
Gibson listened for a few moments as she deftly dodged
Tommy’s attempts to grab her hair and knock off her headset.
Darby threw the ball out of the playpen and hit her mother in
the back before starting to wail, then tried to climb to freedom
over the playpen rails.
Gibson noted this and went into action. While still holding
Tommy, she grabbed the ball off the floor, tossed it up in the
air, and deftly caught it behind her back—one of the skills she
had developed from her basketball days.
Darby stopped climbing, grinned, and started clapping.
“Mommy, Mommy. G-good.”
Tommy was also mesmerized by this enough to stop
attacking his mother’s hair. “Do it again,” he ordered.
Gibson kept repeating this act while she said, “Right, Zeb, I
understand. But the fact is I got lucky on some key clicks and
ran down a couple tricky leads that paid off, but there’s no
guarantee that will happen again.
The lawyers need to get
injunctions filed and put concrete lids on those accounts before
he can wire that money out to God knows where. I checked
and we can get the assets frozen because all those countries are
subject to the usual global banking laws, so Larkin can’t
grease their skids without severe consequences to their
memberships in the international financial community.”
Gibson paused for a moment and tossed the ball again so
she could remove Tommy’s index finger from her right eye.”
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