The Kings Of Cool

222

“You cut them loose?” Ben asks.

They’re sitting in Dennis’s car in the parking lot of Albertsons in Laguna.

“We can’t hold them on the murder,” Dennis explains. “Unless one flips on the other, we have nothing.”

“I’ll go in,” Ben says. “If that’s the problem, I’ll-”

“It won’t do any good,” Dennis says. “You can’t put them on the scene, and they have alibis.”

“If I go in and swear out a complaint against Crowe for extortion-”

“The most you have on him is making a threat,” Dennis answers. “You can’t even tie him to the beating Boland gave you, never mind the murders.”

“So now what?”

“Run.”

“What?”

“Run, Ben.”

Because these guys are out, and they’re going to kill you.