She was already in a bad mood. She had talked to Phil the day before and it was obvious that he didn’t share her concerns about the motives of Skyle... McKay and Grace Karstens. He said they had invited him out to a club after the game but he had finally convinced them he wasn’t interested.Hailey knew what happened in the clubs around Heilman. She could only imagine what transpired in the establishments in a place as amoral as the one Phil had described to her. She was certain that either Skyler. Hillary was going to have a much more difficult time getting anything done in her next couple of years. She was probably throwing the dishes in the White House.Which was not to say she wouldn’t get anything done. Her husband had been faced with this exact same sort of scenario back in 1994, when Newt and the Gang of Eight (including me) had rammed a Republican House in, upsetting Clinton’s plans. He had been a canny politician, as I had forecast to the others. “They don’t call him Slick Willie. You pull in and get gas if you need it or just come in to get a coffee. Look over at me, catch my eye, and smile or something but don’t approach me. You go out and I follow you.”Thinking a minute, Will said teasingly, “What if I don’t want to pick you up? How are you going to get home?”Getting up and heading to the kitchen, Ann said, “Then I will just have to find myself another trucker to give me a ride to town or wherever he is going.”Will just laughed and said, “Okay, but you know pickups. It was no big deal,though. All three of us were working on government construction jobswhere prevailing union wages were paid, so each of us had a healthy wadof bills stashed in our coats.The place we found looked like a biker's dream. It didn't have one ofthose little cutesy names like "Dew Drop Inn" or shit like that. Theplace was called "Randy Andy's," and it looked like just what the doctorordered."Those guys are gonna be missing some serious drinking," Jake mused."This place looks like a.