Certain Prey
Chapter One
Clara Rinker.
Of the three unluckiest days in Barbara Allen's life, the first was
the day Clara Rinker was raped behind a St. Louis nudie bar called
Zanadu, which was located west of the city in a dusty checkerboard
of truck terminals, warehouses and light assembly plants. Zanadu,
as its chrome-yellow I-70 billboard proclaimed, was E-Z On, E-Z
Off. The same was not true of Clara Rinker, despite what Zanadu's
customers thought.
Rinker was sixteen when she was raped, a small athletic girl, a
dancer, an Ozarks runaway. She had bottle-blond hair that showed
darker roots, and a body that looked wonderful in V-necked, red-polka-dotted,
thin cotton dresses from Kmart. A body that drew the
attention of cowboys, truckers and othe ... read full excerpt from Certain Prey ebook
