![]() ![]() When I got in to see Alec Wynn of Reiner, Switz, Galsworthy, and Wynn, the sun was well clear of the cityscape on the Detroit River. I still have it, a souvenir of a case I'd rather have gone to someone else. The suit was relatively new and I'd stood closer to the razor than usual that morning. I was confident he didn't include me among the anarchists. Some people don't like bankers for some reason." His tiny eyes straddled an icebreaker nose with white hairs twisting out of the nostrils. "Well, don't get off on any others, whatever the number." "Of course not." I knocked my knuckles against the top of his station. Thirteen's always fourteen in the plan, and a six-sixty-seven address is really six-six-six. "You should go outside sometime and count. It had an aluminum clip and bore only the number 14 in bold black. In the gray-and-silver lobby a Morlock in a formfitting uniform found my name on an electronic clipboard and poked a pass across his lectern. I'm often wrong about these things but there are people in Stationary Traffic who owe me favors. Either way it gave me time to finish my business and skedaddle. he was either so important it would be someone else's responsibility to have me towed, or too chronically late to risk attracting attention. I figured if Howard hadn't shown up by 10:00 A.M. A white-enameled sign with raised black letters said W. WYN-WYN read the plate on a glossy black Porsche in a reserved space, the new model that got seventy-eight miles to the gallon as if anyone who'd drop $800,000 on an automobile cared about the price of gas. Then a traffic helicopter passed in front of it, dragging its reflection across slate-colored glass standing nineteen stories tall against slate-colored sky. It looked like a gap in the skyline and one more empty lot. Edward D.I couldn't see the building at first.Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award - 2013. ![]() Owen Wister Lifetime Achievemtn Award from the Western Writers of America - 2012. ![]()
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