Bad Guys: A Gibbons and Tozzi Novel (Book 1) by Bruno Anthony

Author:Bruno, Anthony [Bruno, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: FICTION/Thrillers
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2014-01-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Hayes the librarian sat behind his desk in the File Room looking through a card-catalogue drawer, checking something against what was on his computer terminal. Gibbons was sitting at a cubicle watching him. There was a sugar doughnut on a paper napkin and a cup of coffee on Hayes’s desk, and from time to time Hayes would break off a small piece of doughnut and eat it, leaning forward over his desk to keep powdered sugar off him and out of the keyboard. He was making that doughnut last the way little kids make things last, and it was aggravating the hell out of Gibbons. Why the hell didn’t he just eat the goddamn doughnut and be done with it?

If the Manhattan field office was a village, Gibbons often thought, Hayes would be the village idiot. He looked like a pro linebacker stuffed into a Robert Hall suit, but he had a soft whispery voice and a vague, confused way about him. He’d started with the FBI as a special agent, believe it or not. His size was an asset, but he was never able to bring himself to use it as a means of intimidation. And, of course, once he opened his mouth, he didn’t seem very intimidating at all. His main problem as an agent had been that he was too thorough. He did things the right way, which meant his methodology was impeccable but his results amounted to shit.

Gibbons sat at the cubicle with a yellow legal pad in front of him, trying to figure out how to overwhelm Hayes and throw up a smoke screen for Ivers. He had no choice but to use the files now, and Ivers would get his weekly printout of who called up what on the computer. But if Gibbons called up a lot of stuff, all kinds of stuff, it might keep Ivers busy second-guessing him for a while.

Gibbons put together a list of names and events he wanted files on. There were twenty-six items on the list and eighteen of them had clear links to Tozzi, either cases he’d worked on, people he’d investigated, or crimes he’d tried to break. Seven of the items had more tenuous connections with Tozzi. Ivers would have to do some research to figure out why Gibbons might be looking into these things. This, he hoped, would obscure the information he really wanted, information on Steve “the Hun” Pagano.

Tozzi, that bastard, had wakened him from a deep sleep late last night and told him about his encounter with Paulie Tortorella and how he squeezed him for Pagano’s name. Tozzi was so excited and incoherent, Gibbons didn’t even bother to tell him that Phillip Giovinazzo gave him the same information. Tozzi said they needed to know more about Pagano and insisted that the FBI files were the only way. Gibbons didn’t think it was such a hot idea, but at three A.M. he wasn’t going to argue about it.

Gibbons stared at Pagano’s name where he’d written it down on the list.

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