The Husband. Dean Koontz

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of his own death pecked at him, and when he tried to repress them, they could not be caged. The susurration in his ears was only the sound of his rushing blood, driven by the oars of a sculling heart, but his imagination provided dark wings beating at the periphery of his mind’s eye.

      Although he was squeamish about searching the corpse, necessity brought him to his knees beside it.

      From a hand so warm that it seemed death might be a pretense, he removed the pistol. He put it in the nearby wheelbarrow.

      If the right leg of the dead man’s khakis had not been pulled up in the fall, Mitch wouldn’t have seen the second weapon. The gunman carried the snub-nosed revolver in an ankle holster.

      After putting the revolver with the pistol, Mitch considered the holster. He undid the Velcro closures, put the holster with the guns.

      He dug through the pockets of the sports coat, turned out the pockets of the pants.

      He discovered a set of keys—one for a car, three others—which he considered but then returned to the pocket where he’d found them. After a brief hesitation, he retrieved them and added them to the wheelbarrow.

      He found nothing more of interest other than a wallet and a cell phone. The former would contain identification, and the latter might be programmed to speed-dial, among other numbers, each of the dead man’s collaborators.

      If the phone rang, Mitch didn’t dare answer it. Even if he spoke in monosyllables and the man at the other end briefly mistook his voice for that of the dead man, he would give himself away by one slip or another.

      He switched off the phone. They would be suspicious when they got voice mail, but they would not act precipitously on mere suspicion.

      Restraining his curiosity, Mitch set the wallet and phone aside in the wheelbarrow. Other, more urgent tasks awaited him.

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      From the back of the truck, Mitch fetched a canvas tarp that was used for bundling rosebush clippings. The thorns could not easily penetrate it, as they did burlap.

      In case one of the other kidnappers came looking for the dead man, Mitch couldn’t leave the body here.

      The thought of driving around with the corpse in the trunk of his car turned his stomach sour. He would have to buy some antacids.

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