Fante by Dan Fante

Author:Dan Fante
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Eventually, as the investigation went deeper, Schroeder and I found ourselves in further over our heads. Several of our targets had jackets and carried weapons. We were regularly tailed now and I got pretty good at disguises and often slept at the office or didn’t go home at all for days at a time. When I did go to my apartment, I took two cabs with a subway ride in between.

Schroeder was Clint Eastwood in a time when he should have been Ollie North. Though he was a pro and took his troubles in stride, the pressure from all sides eventually caused my boss to start boozing heavily again. Being a cowboy with uncanny good luck was the only thing between Buck and two “pills” in the back of the head.

Eventually, from our investigations, we were sure convictions could be made. Our cases were strong. But again and again we were held back by our clients. They refused to involve law enforcement except when Schroeder or I took someone down in a physical confrontation. Finally, my boss lost his patience with the clients. We had risked our necks to put the bad guys away, but the prime objective of our employers had not been prosecutions. They wanted the apartment buildings empty and our work had helped achieve that. Money changed hands. Deals were made as necessary. Tenants were relocated.

In the end an indignant Schroeder was given a large bonus to keep him silent and compliant.

The day Buck got his bonus (which I was sure was in the five-figure range), he called me into his office. There were three hundred-dollar bills facing my side of the desk. “Those are yours, Danny,” he said, grinning. “I wish it could be more, but you know me, I’ve got a line of sharks half a block long waiting for a chunk of my ass.”

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