Fogarty: A City of London Thriller by J Jackson Bentley

Author:J Jackson Bentley [Bentley, J Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fidus Publishing
Published: 2012-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Trafalgar House Flats & Upton Park, London.

Saturday 20th August 2011; 12 noon.

Trafalgar House Flats, Broadwater Farm Estate, North London

Gavin Mapperly cinched his Crombie and fastened the buttons; it was a habit rather than a reaction to the weather, which was seasonably warm. Gavin was in his sixty first year of indifferent health; born prematurely, his weak body had never seemed to catch up. Prone to illness and injury, he had missed a great deal of schooling as a child, the situation being exacerbated by a lonely, overprotective mother who confined him to bed for every minor ailment.

Gavin was actually quite brilliant, but he was largely self-educated. His lack of formal qualifications had restricted him to meaningless administrative jobs until, in his fifties, he found work with the Boss. The Boss immediately saw an embittered and intrinsically violent man concealed beneath a mild mannered exterior; he was the ideal candidate for controlling a crime syndicate. For nearly ten years Gavin had lived a double life - part time financial manager in the City, and part time controller of low life criminals in North London. The Boss had interests in many businesses, some legitimate, most not.

Gavin looked at his watch. It was almost twelve noon. He took a transparent plastic pill holder from his coat pocket and opened the segment labelled ‘Saturday noon’, then dropped the two pills it contained into his hand. He looked at them in the palm of his hand, one white tablet for pain relief and one pink tablet for his immune system. He threw them into his mouth and dry swallowed them.

Gavin was parked at the entrance to the Trafalgar House flats and his driver was standing with him. They both leaned against the sleek, highly polished, racing green Jaguar limousine. In less than a minute he would lead a convoy of vehicles into the flats proper, and their work would begin.

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