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Warren Murphy: The Final Death

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The fat's in the fire when a Texas beef mogul is found skinned and gutted like one of his steers. Soon after, innocent people across the country are dying from eating meat injected with a powerful poison. Fearing a threat to national security, the White House orders Remo Williams, the Destroyer, to find the butchers and stop the killing. The grisly deaths are no mystery to Chiun, Remo's Sinanju master, but the work of an ancient Chinese vegetarian cult of murderers sworn to kill the meateaters of the West. Now the Destroyer's got to cut off the fanatics before they slaughter the U.S.!

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The new President paused.

"About this poison thing," he said.

"Yes?"

The new President paused again. Then quickly, as if it could not be a mistake if spoken quickly, he said: "Keep on it."

"Yes, Mr. President."

The man with the lemony voice hung up. The new President looked at the telephone for a moment, then replaced the receiver on the cradle, and closed the drawer.

He looked around the office, then through the windows, out toward Pennsylvania Avenue.

As he walked toward the door, he allowed himself a comment on his newfound knowledge:

"Sheee-it."

CHAPTER TWO

His name was Remo and the drunk tank smelled. The stench of vomit and booze-breath and whisky-soaked clothing would have been enough to asphyxiate any normal man. So Remo closed down his nasal passages and breathed thinly and waited for his case to be called.

The cops in Tucston, North Dakota, had found him wandering down the middle of the street wearing a black T shirt and black slacks, ripping the hubcaps off cars, and singing "Blowing in the Wind." When they shoved him into the back of the squad car, they failed to notice that he wasn't shivering, even though he was only lightly clothed and the temperature was fourteen below zero, Fahrenheit.

And Remo hadn't said anything. He had presented his New York identification listing him as Remo Boffer, former cab driver, and been booked and waited in his cell.

And waited.

And waited for Judge Dexter T. Ambrose Jr. "Hanging Dexter," they called him. And they were right, just so long as the defendants before him weren't part of organized crime or well connected or had a buck. Because those people somehow found a softer, more gentle side of Dexter T. Ambrose Jr., whose steel and acid was reserved for the poor, the unrepresented, the flotsam that floated through his courtroom. .

It was 9 a.m. Remo knew without looking at a watch, and his plane would be leaving in two hours, and he hated time pressure and he hated hurrying. He had spent most of the early part of last night trying to find Judge Ambrose, but had had no luck. The man wasn't home and wasn't at his mistress' house, and wasn't at any of his regular haunts, and Remo realized that the fastest way to find him was to present himself at Ambrose's regular court session in the morning.

He had been standing now for six hours, leaning against the cinderblock wall of the cell, ignoring the grunts, the belches, the attempts at conversation of the nine other drunks in the tank.

Most of them had slept it off by now and they were a contrite, dirty band as they waited for their day in court and their one-way ticket to the county jail.

One of them woke up yelling. He was a big red-faced cowboy type in a yellow plaid shirt and jeans and a heavy hip length sheepskin coat. And when he had finished screaming his protest at the start of another day, he had struggled to his feet, looked around the cell, and marched upon Remo.

"You," he said. "Give me a cigarette."

"Don't smoke," Remo said.

"Then get one," the big cowpuncher said.

"Walk in the water until it covers your head," Remo said.

"Hold on a minute, skinny. You telling me you ain't giving me a cigarette?"

"I'm telling you I wouldn't give you a cigarette if I was P.J. Lorillard. Now go eat a cow."

"You too skinny a sumbitch to talk to me like that," the cowboy said, hitching up his belt.

"Right," Remo said.

"I'm too big to have to listen to that kind of crap from you."

"Right," Remo said. He heard footsteps coming down the stone corridor toward the cell.

"I'm gonna bust you up good."

"Sure. Swell, right, okay," Remo said.

The cowboy drew back his right arm and threw a punch at Remo's face. But the fist never landed. It found itself wrapped around by one of Remo's hands, and then there was pressure and the cowboy could feel the bones clicking, almost mechanically, as they were broken by the steady squeezing pressure of Remo's hand. Click, click, click came the fractures. The cowboy started to scream. Remo's other hand covered his mouth to silence the scream, then touched a clump of nerves on the left side of the man's neck, and the big cowboy slipped down on the floor, unconscious.

A policeman walked up to the front of the cell.

"All right, you stewbums," he said. "This is the order. Masterson, then Boffer, then Johnson"… he kept reading out all 10 names.

Remo walked to the front of the cell. "I'm Boffer. Take me first. Masterson's still sleeping it off."

He pointed to the big cowboy sprawled out on the floor.

The guard looked at the big man, then at his list, then nodded. "Okay. Let's go, Boffer. The judge doesn't like to be kept waiting."

"I wouldn't dream of it," Remo said.

The guard unlocked the cell, let Remo out, then carefully relocked the door behind him.

"This way," he said, and as he walked with Remo down the corridor, he asked, "You don't seem like the regular kind of drunk. What are you doing here?"

"Just lucky I guess," said Remo.

"If it makes you happy to be wise ass with me, you go ahead," the guard said, his feelings hurt. "But dontcha try that with the judge or you'll be spending the rest of the year making little ones out of big ones."

"Tough judge, huh?" asked Remo.

"The toughest."

"I always heard he was kind of easy on the big boys. You know, people with money to spread around."

The guard went on his defensive. "I wouldn't know anything about that."

"I would," Remo mumbled.

The court session, held in a high-ceilinged room on the second floor of the police station, was perfunctory. The two policemen stood before Judge Ambrose, a shiny-headed bald man with big shoulders and thick lips, and told how they had apprehended the perpetrator tearing hubcaps off cars on Madison Street at 3 a.m.

Judge Ambrose nodded. He looked at Remo with a measuring cold eye.

"Do you have anything to say before the court pronounces sentence?"

"Sure do, old buddy," said Remo.

He jauntily moved forward a few steps until he was standing right before the judge's bench. He reached into a vest pocket and drew out a small piece of paper and handed it up to the judge.

Judge Ambrose leaned over the paper as Remo moved back. The judge opened the paper. It was a note. It read: "Let's talk in your chambers."

Wrapped inside the note was a ten thousand dollar bill, the first one Judge Ambrose had ever seen.

Ambrose looked up and met Remo's eyes. The man's eyes were the blackest Ambrose had ever seen, almost as if they had no pupils.

The judge swallowed, then nodded. He crumpled up the paper and the bill and stuffed it into the pocket of his long judicial robe.

"I want to talk to this man in my chambers. Court is recessed for 15 minutes," he said.

"Twenty," said Remo.

"For 20 minutes," Judge Ambrose said.

Inside the judge's chambers, Ambrose sat behind his desk under an ornamental gem-cut crystal chandelier and looked across at Remo who sprawled in a leather lounge chair facing him.

"All right, Mr. Boffer. What's this all about?" he asked, waving the $10,000 bill at Remo.

"Call it survivor's benefits," Remo said.

"Survivor's benefits? I don't understand," Judge Ambrose said.

"You will," said Remo. "Nice chandelier."

"Thank you."

"That's the one you got free from Light City for deciding their way on a zoning case, right?"

"Who are you?"

"And the desk. That's from the Gilberstad Furniture Store, right? When you ruled that they could block the sidewalk for their annual sale days. And a kid walked in the street, got hit by a car, and died."

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