Prizzi's Honor by Richard Condon

Author:Richard Condon [Condon, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Modern, Thriller
ISBN: 9780896214033
Google: Rf02AgAAQBAJ
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Goodreads: 376516
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1982-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-one

Charley and Irene had spread the floor plan out across the kitchen table and the back of one chair and he was going over it with her carefully. “If you spot anything soft, speak up. All right. This is the forty-first floor of Filargi’s hotel. There are only three apartments to a floor up that high. Okay, that is Filargi’s apartment facing the elevator.” He touched the plan where the circled number one appeared. “Every day, when Filargi is ready to go back to the office, his bodyguard goes out that door first and rings for the elevator. When the elevator comes he puts it on Hold, then he goes back and raps on Filargi’s door.”

“Filargi always waits for the rap?” Irene asked.

“Yeah. That’s their SOP. On Monday, when the bodyguard goes to the elevator button, my second man will come out of the apartment on the south side, across the hall from Filargi’s place but beside the elevators, so when the bodyguard puts the car on Hold, my man will pin him down inside the elevator. As soon as the bodyguard is handled, I come out of the north-side apartment, straight across the hall beside the elevators, and I rap on Filargi’s door. He comes out. I take him to the elevator where my second man is with the bodyguard, push the button for the garage basement, and push the No Stop button. Al Melvini will be waiting at the bottom. We walk Filargi to the car Zanzara has waiting there and we take Filargi out to the Island.”

“What happens to the bodyguard?”

“My second man takes him up to the roof on a No Stop trip and does the job on him.”

“Pretty clumsy,” Irene said.

“Pretty clumsy?”

“Charley, fahcrissake, if the bodyguard sees a man outside that door, he isn’t even going to call the elevator. If the second man comes out while he’s waiting for the elevator to come up, the bodyguard is going to drag out his piece and maybe whack him. It’s a licensed piece. He’s a licensed man, which the insurance company is going to say Filargi has to have with him wherever he goes. The insurance company tells him, don’t take chances.”

“You think we should drop the guy right there and bring Filargi out?”

“Well, I certainly don’t think you should take him all the way to the basement, then bring him all the way up to the roof before you clip him. But the clumsiest part is with the second man. You’ve got to have a woman to do that stand.”

They were in the middle of a heavy discussion when the doorbell rang and Pop arrived. He listened to Irene’s argument and shrugged. “She’s right, Charley,” he said. “A woman should do that stand.”

“Look,” Irene said, “listen to me. A woman should take a fake baby out of the south apartment after the bodyguard pushes the button for the elevator, smile at him nicely, fuss with the fake baby, then, when he puts the elevator on Hold, let him rap on the door for Filargi and get him all the way out in the hall.

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