“Yes, sir, that’s awful. Well, that’s the way it goes.” The guy was a philosopher, no less. “That’s the business.”
Yes, it certainly was. It was also “the business” when the brotherhood’s greatest enemy could walk casually among them, command them, and run them around his own track, break bread with them and join their secret parleys, and even build a reputation among them as “Frankie,” the hottest gun in the east.
This guy had evidently decided to venture no closer to the hotshot from the headshed.
Bolan told him, “You stick right there until I say different.”
“Yes, sir, I been sticking right here since two. I’m here till six.”
“Wrong, Jimmy. You’re there until Frankie tells you different. You reading me?”
“I’m reading you, Frankie.”
The tone of that troubled voice told clearly, also, that Jimmy Jenner was trying to read a lot more than that.
“And if you see Mario, you tell him I’m looking for him.”
Bolan was moving off, retracing his steps. The guy called after him, “What’s going down, Frankie?”
“More than you want to know,” Bolan-Frankie called back. “You just stick.”
“Hell, I’m sticking,” was the faint response.
Bolan did not doubt that for a moment. Sonny the Pacer and Jimmy Jenner could possibly be of some future use in this daring penetration of the enemy stronghold; for that reason, alone, they were alive and well.
And their chances for staying that way were, after all, about as good as Bolan’s. He had not waited for Leo Turrin’s “contact.” It was Friday. Someone was planning a feast. And Bolan did not intend that they pick their teeth with Leo’s bones. He had opted for a damned short day. And he was going straight for the enemy’s jugular. Let the vultures take what they would.
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About the Author
Don Pendleton (1927–1995) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He served in the US Navy during World War II and the Korean War. His first short story was published in 1957, but it was not until 1967, at the age of forty, that he left his career as an aerospace engineer and turned to writing full time. After producing a number of science fiction and mystery novels, in 1969 Pendleton launched his first book in the Executioner saga: War Against the Mafia. The series, starring Vietnam veteran Mack Bolan, was so successful that it inspired a new American literary genre, and Pendleton became known as the father of action-adventure.
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Copyright © 1979 by Don Pendleton
Cover design by Mauricio Diaz
ISBN: 978-1-4976-8588-8
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