Detroit Deathwatch by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Suspense & Thrillers, Action & Adventure
Published: 2009-04-23T05:00:00+00:00

12: PINNED

As number two man in a Massachusetts crime family, Leo Turrin was the highest-placed undercover fed in the race. As if those two hats were not difficult enough to wear together, he was also the best living friend of Mack Bolan, a long-declared enemy of both of Leo Turrin's worlds. His voice, as it traveled across the long-distance telephone connection, was crackling with interest.

"They've got the deathwatch on you, Sarge. You caught me just as I was going out the door. I got orders straight from the commission to get my tail to Detroit with all possible haste. They even chartered me a jet. I'm bringing twenty guns with me. Hell, I don't know how many other fire teams are being sent in from other points. I do know that my plane is stopping at Buffalo to pick up a contingent from there."

"It figures," Bolan replied quietly.

"And that's just the dark side of the street,"

Turrin went on. "The entire tricounty area around Detroit is on alert. Those Detroit cops are very sensitive about crime in their streets. They've had their full share of troubles around there, you know, and they're not taking kindly to the craps game you've got started there, I called Brognola early this morning, soon as I heard about—"

"Where is he? Still in Texas?"

"Naw, but his storm troopers are. Picking up the pieces. Hal's back in Washington. He says about you, Sarge: for Christ's sake, cool it. He's going to have to start loading up with real slugs if you don't take a rest and lay low for a while. Argentina, he says, still looks nice."

"It always did," Bolan muttered. "The war is here, Leo."

"Yeah. Well. Don't blame Hal. He's up to his eyeballs in intrigue of his own. Washington is in disarray, you know that. Lack of public confidence and all that. Someone very high is lighting the fires under your cross, wants you caught or shot without further fucking around. Maybe it's just a diversion, but Hal is really on the hot seat. This goes a lot higher than the justice department, Sarge. I mean, you know, like the whole damned government is toppling—a certain branch of it, anyway. You know what Charlie Wilson had to say about General Motors."

"What's good is good, yeah."

"Translate that to Detroit, buddv, because it's all the same ball game anyway. What's good for Detroit is good for the country and vice versa. It seems we have a five star bellringer of an emergency shaping up for this country, and nobody in Washington wants to see a Bolan blitz ripping through the tenderloin of our economy."

"I'm not after the economy," Bolan said tiredly.

"Same difference, man. Who the hell do you think is controlling the economy in that area?"

"You don't really believe that, Leo."

"No, I don't, but there are those who do. There are those who say our system can't survive without illegal manipulation."

"Like who?"

"Well, like the people who worry about recession and inflation, the rise and fall of the dollar and the stock markets, the balance of power between labor and management, all that.

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