Havana World Series by José Latour

Author:José Latour
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2003-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

“Your source is wrong,” Contreras snapped. “We got six twenty-seven. There’s half of it there.”

“Must be a mistake,” Naguib said soothingly.

“We left behind a lot of five- and one-peso stacks ’cause our bags were full,” the Cuban explained. “Maybe they had six fifty in the keister and we left behind twenty-three.”

“Okay. Nevertheless, I’ll give my inside man half of three twenty-five, not to disappoint him,” Naguib said.

The opaque indifference in Contreras’s gaze indicated that the Lebanese could do as he pleased with his cut. Naguib raised his glass, arranged himself on the seat, leaned back. Priding himself on sizing up men accurately, he stared at Contreras with satisfaction. There was an otherness in the Cuban that intrigued him. Kind of guy who makes a great team leader, lousy team player. The intention was to discredit Lansky, not steal the money, and he would’ve given odds of 7 to 3 that the gang would vanish into thin air. With this in mind, that afternoon he had brought a fourth of the figure reported that same morning by his Judas to the apartment and hoarded it in the chest of drawers. But Contreras’s chivalrous behavior, which he’d considered a remote possibility at the beginning of the Bonanno-inspired plot, opened up new and vast opportunities.

“Give me the details, from the moment you entered the casino last night.”

Naguib lit a Lucky. It took Contreras sixteen minutes to make a comprehensive account of the heist, up to the minute when they left in the getaway car. “The only snags were the Pope’s death—that was a total surprise—and the guy I had to bump. The rest went as planned, no trouble at all.”

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