Chris Flynn A Tiger in Eden (epub)

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.What guarantee do we have that we’ll get paid at the end of the job?Olly threw his hands up, oh come on Billy, Mr Carson comes highly recommended we shouldn’t.I wasn’t talking to you, I says, be quiet.Mr Carson gave me an aul thin smile, you have my word, he says.Right well that’s very good, I goes, but I don’t know you Mr Carson and the way I’m thinking is that no one knows where we are and what’s to stop your associates from Pakistan marching us out into some forest in Denmark or wherever and putting a bullet in our heads rather than hand over the money.Olly had this look of horror at first but then I see his brow furrowing as he works out what I was saying was entirely possible.That’s not how I do business, Mr Carson goes, consider this a trial and I’m happy with your work then I will give you a much bigger job when you return.Uh huh, I goes, that’s very kind but let me ask you something else, you say there’s virtually no risk but I presume these passports are stolen or forged, it seems like if something goes wrong we’re the ones who’re going to go down for it and you and your associates will just vanish, there’s no protection for us at all here.You ask a lot of questions, Carson goes, starting to look nervous, are you wearing a wire if you’re recording this conversation I will deny everything, do you work for Interpol?Whoa hold your horses there, I says, calm down, do I look like the sort of cunt works for Interpol, this is not the movies pal sure we’re just a couple of travellers looking to make a wee bit of money, all I’m saying is we have to watch ourselves.He took the huff then and goes, if you don’t want the job that’s fine I’ll find someone else to do it.I thought you might be interested in making some easy money that’s all.So you have my number at the travel agency call me tomorrow and let me know your decision but if I find out you are policemen understand that this will not be good for you.I have many friends in authority here who can make your life very unpleasant.Aye right no bother, I says, thanks for the coffee Mr Carson we’ll give you a ring in the morning.I stood up then and shook his hand I could see the two fellas in the corner watching me like hawks with their hands hovering over the lapels of their jackets sure you could see their pieces bulging a mile off.I had to drag Olly away, as soon as we were outside he was going to start on me but I told him to shut the fuck up and wait until we were well away before he said anything.There was a bit of a park in the middle of this aul roundabout so we ran over there to sit down in the sun.Come on then, I says, let’s hear it.Are you mad, he goes, what the fuck’s your problem this is a golden opportunity.Mr Carson’s well connected and you’re pissing him off already, he’s right this is easy money.I didn’t think you’d be scared after all you’ve done.Is that what you think, I says, that I’m feared? Aye well maybe you’re right I’m just sayin’ we’d be the lowest rung on the ladder here and totally expendable sure for all intents and purposes we’re just a couple of drifters and they’d save forty grand just by walking away at the end never mind the fact they might put the two of us in a shallow grave just to keep our gobs shut, don’t tell me you’re actually considering this, have you no sense?Actually what I was thinking, he says, was that we could deal with the two Pakistanis and take the whole lot two hundred grand each and disappear.I laughed then, aye brilliant idea a couple of hard cases from Pakistan sure we’ll just tie them up and do a runner to Argentina dead easy are you off your fucking head sure we’ve no idea who we’re working for here could be the Triads or the Russians or worse.Even if we could pinch the money sure we’d be looking over our shoulders the rest of our lives it’s bad enough now I don’t want to be looking at every Pakistani wondering if he’s going to pull out a machete and chop my fucking arms off, the whole thing stinks so it does.Olly flopped back on the grass with his arms over his head and an aul scowl on his face.He could see the sense in what I was saying, he just didn’t want to believe it.Putain, he goes, thumping the grass with his fist.I thought we could do this thing together you and me make some money and have a good time.Sorry brother, I says, count me out sure I’m fed up with this life-on-the-run business.So what you going to do, he says, work in an office settle down and get married, look at yourself in the mirror sometime Billy sérieusement.I know, I says, you think I don’t know how it goes sitting on some train or bus on the way to work every morning the same aul faces no talk reading the celebrity news in the paper, every cunt worried sick about the mortgage or the credit card bill or the repayments on their fucking piece-of-shit Toyota Corolla big ball of fucking knots in their guts an aul feeling of dread sitting on their shoulders destroying them before the day’s even begun.You think I don’t know about that life I seen it all around me everywhere I go, fuck sake people standing in the queue at the supermarket or at the hole in the wall or at the bus stop in the fucking freezing rain or in the dole office.You think I don’t know what the world’s like sure I seen more than most men could stand and I done things I’m not proud of, the only way I could get out was to touch the face of fucking Heaven on a Friday night, pills and trips and dust and fighting and drink and sticking my knob in every wet hole I could find knowing there was millions of others out there who felt just like I did, that’s what I depended on because I knew there might not be a tomorrow and the soundtrack in my head was the only thing made it all bearable sure if you could only hear it you’d know what I mean.I can’t do it no more Olly, I can’t keep running when all I’m doing is trying to run from myself and I can’t be involved in any passport scams or wild money-making schemes [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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