What to read: "Stranger" - a new novel by Stephen King

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The inconspicuous unmarked car no one else said a word. Remidzh drove into the parking lot in front of the police department and put the car in the free space in the row indicated by the sign "FOR OFFICIAL TRANSPORT ONLY." Ralph turned to the man who coached his son. Terry cap - a baseball cap with the logo of "Golden Dragon" - askew, like young rappers. T-shirt with the same emblem was beat out of sweat pants, his face glistening with sweat. At that moment Terry looked guilty as hell. Except that there was no hint of guilt in his eyes. These eyes Ralph in abutment with silent reproach.

Ralph was a question that could not wait.

- Why is it, Terry? Why Frankie Peterson? This year he has played in your Little League? How long have you laid eyes on him? Or simply turned up the opportunity, and you took it?

Terry opened his mouth to protest again, but realized that it makes no sense. Ralph will not listen to him. definitely will not now. None of them is going to listen.

Better to wait. Yes, it is difficult, but in the end it can save time and effort.

- Come on, - said Ralph softly and casually. - You wanted to say something, here and say. Tell me. Explain. Right here and now, until we got out of the car.

- I'll wait for his lawyer - Terry said.

- If you're innocent, - said Yates, - and you do not need no lawyer. Come on, convince us of his innocence, if you can. We even throw at you home.

Still looking straight into the eyes of Ralph Anderson, Terry said in a barely audible voice:

- You did very poorly. You did not even bother to check where I was a Tuesday night, huh? From you I did not expect. - He paused for a moment as if in thought, and added: - beast.

Ralph was not going to explain to Terry that he had discussed this issue with Samuels, though the discussion did not last long. They have a small town. You begin to ask too many questions and rumors instantly reach Maitland.

- It is the rare case when you do not need to check anything. - Ralph opened his door. - Let's go to. While waiting for your lawyer, you will issue as it should be, take off fingers, take pictures…

- Terry! Terry!

Not listening to Ralph Council Marcy Maitland went behind a police car on his "Toyota". Jamie Mattingly, their neighbor, she offered to take Grace and Sarah to him. Both girls were crying. Jamie, too.

- Terry, what do they do? And what to do to me?

Terry snatched her hand for a moment of capture Yeats who held him by the elbow.

- Call Howie!

More he did not say anything. Remidzh opened the door with a sign "Trespassing", and Terry Yates shoved inside, roughly shoving him in the back.

Ralph paused for a moment in the doorway.

- Go home, Marcy, - he said. - You go until here not nabezhali newspapermen.

He almost added "I'm sorry"But he was not sorry. Betsy Riggins with the guys from the state police waiting for Marcy at the house, but she will still have to go home. This is the best thing she can do. The only thing that she can do, really. Perhaps it would have cost her regret. At least for the girls - they really accurately in no way to blame - and still ...

You have done a very bad thing. From you I did not expect.

Ralph did not have to feel guilty when he heard reproach the man who raped and brutally killed the child, but somehow felt. Then he remembered the pictures from the scene - such a nightmare that would like to be blind.

Bill Samuels explained all of the items available and easily. Ralph agreed with him, he agreed and judge Carter, which Samuels asked for orders. First, in fact, everything is clear. It makes no sense to pull the rubber, where there are all the evidence. Secondly, if you give Terry time it can escape, and they will have to find him before he finds another Frankie Peterson to rape and kill.

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Indications Mr. Riley Franklin [13 July, 7:45, questioning the witness spent Detective Ralph Anderson]

detective AndersonI'll show you six pictures of six different people, Mr. Franklin. Please select one photo of the person you saw on the backyard bar "Shorty" on Tuesday, July 10th. Do not hurry. Watch carefully.

FranklinYes, I just see it. Here it is, the second number. Coach Tee. That's how, I can not believe. He coached my little son in the Minor Leagues.

detective Anderson: And my too. Thank you, Mr. Franklin.

Franklin: For him little lethal injection. He should be hanged. And so that he gasped at once.

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Marcy pulled into the parking lot at the "Burger King" on Tinsley Avenue and pulled out a cell phone. She shook hands so that she dropped it on the floor. Leaning over him, he hits his head on the steering wheel and began to cry again. Number Howie Gold was in her contacts. Not because Maitland had reason to keep the number of a lawyer familiar speed dial, but because the last two seasons for a couple of Howie Terry coached the child football command. He answered on the second ring.

- Howie? This Marcy Maitland, wife Terry - for some reason, she explained, as if they had dinner together once a month for the second year, to 2016.

- Marcy? You cry? What happened?

It was so horrible that she did not even find what you say.

- Marcy? Are you here? You had an accident?

- I'm here. I'm alright. But Terry... Terry was arrested. Ralph Terry Anderson arrested. For the murder of the kid. They said so. For the murder of Frank Peterson.

— What?! You kidding?

- He was not even in town! - howled Marcy. She herself knew that look like a teenager now in hysterics, but I could not help myself. - He was arrested. They said that the police were waiting outside the house!

- Where is Sarah and Grace?

- Jamie Mattingly, our neighbor. all is well with them. - Though once before their eyes arrested father and led away in handcuffs, with them, certainly not all good.

Marcy rubbed her forehead and thought it would probably be a bruise. She wondered why she cares. Because, perhaps, the house had already gathered the newspapers? Because they see the bruise on her forehead and think, if Terry hit her?

- Howie, you help me? You help us?

- Of course, I'll help. Terry was taken to the police station?

- Yes! Handcuffed!

- Clear. I'm going there. And you go home, Marcie. Find out what they want those cops. If they have a warrant - and he is likely to have, because otherwise why would they come to you home - to get acquainted with all the paperwork, ask exactly what they are looking for, let them into the house, but nothing they did not say. Do you understand me? Do not say nothing.

- I... yes.

- Peterson was killed on Tuesday, if I'm not mistaken. So, wait... - The pipe in the background sounded muffled voice again - the voice of Howie, then - a woman's voice. Apparently, Elaine, his wife Howie. Then Howie picked up the phone again. - Yes, on Tuesday. Where was Terry on Tuesday?

- In Cap City! He went ...

- Now it is not important. The police may ask you this question. They can ask you a bunch of questions. Tell them that you will be silent on the advice of your lawyer. You understood?

- Y-yes.

- Do not let them intimidate you, catch or persuade. They know how to do.

- Yes, I understood.

- Where are you now?

She knew she had seen the sign, but still decided to check.

- The "Burger King". Which at Tinsley. I pulled into the parking lot to call you.

- Are you okay? She get there?

She almost told him I hit my head, but decided to remain silent.

- Yes.

- Take a deep breath. Take three deep breaths. Then go home. Follow the signs, observe speed limits. At every turn plug turn signals. Terry has a computer?

- Of course. Aypad still there, but he does not use them almost. And we both - laptops. And the girls - a mini-iPads. And of course, smartphones. We all have smartphones. Grace received her birthday, three months ago.

- You must provide a list of what will be removed.

- They really can take our stuff? - Marcy's voice again sounded hysterical. - So just go and pick?! Are we, in Russia or in North Korea ?!

- They can pick up only what is stated in the order. But I want you to compile your own list. In girls with a smartphone?

- And you thought? They do not part with them.

- Good. Maybe the cops will want to pick up and your smartphone. Give up.

- And if they still take away?

Is it so important really?

- Do not take away. You will not charged with any crime, and anything they take your can not. Go home. I'll be there as soon as I can. We shall understand in all, I promise you.

- Thank you, Howie. - She began to cry again. - Many thanks.

- It is not for nothing. And do not forget: high-speed mode, the full stop at the sign "Stop", turn on all the corners. Understood?

- Yes.

- I go to the station - said Howie and off. Marcy including transfer, then again took a grip on the parking lot. I take a deep breath. Then the second. Third. Yes, it's a nightmare, but it will soon be over. Terry was at Cap City. They are convinced that this is true, and let him go home.

- And then - she said into the void (the car really was empty and uncomfortable without the girls, giggling in the back seat), - we sue them all.

In the city park discovering the mutilated corpse of the eleven-year boy. The testimony of witnesses and fingerprints indicate Terry Maitland, coach local children's baseball team. The man has an alibi, but it is still arrested.

It seems the culprit is found, and it expects a life sentence, but suddenly pop up previously unknown details of the case. Police Detective Flint City Ralph Anderson and a private detective agency "Let us find and keep" Holly Gibney going to find out the truthWhat would it at any cost.

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