All Is Not Forgiven by Joe Kenda

Author:Joe Kenda [Kenda, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

THE HIT MAN COP

This was a legendary case in our police department. A guy named Carl Perry had soaked up five or six whiskeys with beer chasers at Nolan’s Bar & Grill in our fair city and began yammering about wanting to hire someone to kill his wife. He poked the guy next to him and asked if he could help him do the job.

That guy was a retired city detective, Dominick Rodino, who played along, thinking Perry wasn’t serious, just drunk.

“Yeah, I might know a guy who knows a guy, but it would be expensive,” Rodino said, playing with him. “How much can you pay?”

“I’d pay at least five grand,” Perry said.

Even then, Rodino was inclined to let it slide, thinking it was just the booze talking. When Perry kept bugging him, he said, “Meet me here for lunch tomorrow, sober, and we’ll discuss this further.”

Rodino thought that would be the end of it, but the next day, Perry showed up, and he was sober.

“If your guy can’t do it, I heard about another guy in Denver,” he told the retired cop. “I really need to get this done before the bitch takes all my money.”

So Rodino came into headquarters and told Chief Morrissey about the guy in the bar who wanted to hire a killer and off his wife.

“I was inclined to just laugh it off, but then he said if I didn’t help him he’d find somebody else, and he’s talking enough money that somebody would probably do it, Chief, right?”

“You are right, we can’t ignore this. We need to get ahead of it and make sure this Perry fella doesn’t get his wife killed,” said Chief Morrissey. “I’ll have our detectives set up a sting. We’ll have one of our guys pretend to be the killer-for-hire. He can wear a wire and gather what we need to put Mr. Perry behind bars. Sounds like that’s where he deserves to be anyway.”

The chief had looked up Perry to see if he had a criminal record. He’d scored a couple of aggravated battery charges, a DUI, and, on top of that, the department had a long record of complaints filed by his wife about being beaten and terrorized by him.

“Sounds good, Chief. Do you want me to set up a meeting between Perry and your fake killer?”

“Sure, and I think you will like the guy I’m casting in that starring role.”

“Who’s that?”

“Your grandson, Dino. He is such a ham, he’ll be perfect!”

“Oh, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, my wife will have a fit if she hears about this. But I’m sure Dino will kill it, so to speak!”

Robert “Dino” Fasano, Rodino’s grandson, was a third-year detective and already a legend in our police department. He had a pile of black wavy hair and the dark good looks of a movie star as well as the toned musculature of an NFL linebacker thanks to many hours spent in the department’s weight room.

Dino was a tough guy and looked like it, but he was also a prankster with a little kid’s “hee-hee-hee” laugh.

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