Mexican Standoff by Gardner Francis Fox

Author:Gardner Francis Fox [Fox, Gardner Francis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: femme fatale, Secret agent, sexectioner
Publisher: Gardner Francis Fox Library LLC
Published: 2021-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

As I let my mind and my eyes play over the suave Tony, Nicky once more intruded himself in total contrast.

“Hey boss,” he said to Tony with a wink, “better have the gardener clean out the pool tomorrow morning. The lady and I just did a number in it.”

I almost winced. He was so crude about things. I could tell from the flicker of hate that Tony permitted to lodge momentarily in his eyes that the boss was not at all happy with the way the gunsel was behaving. With much amusement I thought that Tony was an adherent of the school of manners that taught that one should treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.

I was doing the same thing. Making obeisance to Tony as if he were truly the gracious host, man of the world, he pretended to be. But I knew that all of this polish was just exterior. Underneath the creamy cashmere shirt he was still the same rat bastard gangster living off the effects of heroin that he always had been.

And I knew that when the time came for me to deal with him, it would be on that basis, not with the phony outward look that he presented to the little world of his command.

I would just as soon punch out the beautifully capped teeth and crush the abbreviated nose as I would have been to do them to the original.

No matter how much I admired what he had been able to do in achieving his disguise it was still the man inside that I was dealing with and I hated every drop of the blood that ran through his vicious veins.

I smiled at him mischievously over the rim of my glass, twinkling my eyes while inside I promised myself that if the opportunity came I would restore that nose to its original pre-surgeon shape.

As we sat and smiled and chatted aimlessly over the endless drinks that Luz kept reappearing with, my mind was racing. Now that I knew more of what the possibilities were I began to formulate a plan. As soon as we all went to our respective rooms to get ready for dinner I would check the arsenal that lay disguised in my various articles of clothing and jewelry. Then after dinner if they called for a repeat performance of the previous night I would knock them all into oblivion so that I could get out and back to the field.

Then if I found that such an operation was possible I could lay my plans for the destruction of the growing crop.

Even though it would cause only a temporary halt in production of the deadly produce, the charred and burning fields could be more easily spotted from the air than a normally growing place would be. Thus it would make a lot of sense to put this project into operation close to the time that I’d be ready to be going back to New York. That way my report could be acted on quickly.

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