Rent Boy by Gary Indiana

Author:Gary Indiana
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 2023-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

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Okay, you guessed right. It’s this shanghai operation they’ve been planning, the three of them, for a long time now. The mark’s name is a Mr. Lindner, who lives up in Westchester County but runs some genetic engineering consortium and likes to kick back at the end of the day in La Esqualita and Sally’s II, drag places in the Forties. He had a little heart problem a few years ago so he can’t drink liquor. Smokes a little dope and has been known to pick up “girls” that he takes to the less elegant hotels in the area. He’s married, natch, with kids, but he’s got a real yen for pre-ops. He absolutely does not like “men,” so we figured it was cool for Chip and me to check him out one night without getting noticed.

Stanley has been trailing this guy for weeks, so he came with us into La Esqualita, which was packed, since they were just starting the floorshow. The floorshow sucked. Big drags in sequins doing bad lip-sync, but the place looked full of straight people anyway who go ape over any type of drag number because to them it’s like real “transgressive.” That’s a word Sandy Miller kind of infects people with. Anyway, our mark was all by himself at the bar, where it wasn’t too crowded, trying to make himself interesting to a Spanish kid with a long black wig and a feather boa and the kind of dress Jackie Kennedy had on in that motorcade. The kid looked glazy bored under all the eye makeup and Lindner, all dolled up in his office suit, wasn’t trying too hard. Actually, he’s not a bad-looking guy, kind of like John Cassavetes in Rosemary’s Baby but a little older and the hair more or less totally gray.

Stanley left us there once we had him spotted. The guy looked pretty quick on his feet, and like I said, he can’t drink, so there’s no chance of getting him shit-face drunk. Anyway, we just wanted to make sure we’d be able to recognize him again. I drank a beer. Chip ordered a brandy and soda and drank two of them down, quick, and I could see he was nervous, just thinking about what we were doing there and what it was leading up to, even though this was only a reconnaissance flight so to speak. I mean I had the thought that we’d already gotten into this to the point of no turning back. It’s true I haven’t given them a yes or a no, but in a way just letting Mavis tell me the whole scam was the same thing as saying yes. Wasn’t it? Because, okay, I’m thinking the whole time about Chip, how he’s incredibly careless about shit and could really fuck the thing up on his own, or like in league with one of his churns from Trix, Fat Paul the moron or what have you, ending up in the federal slammer or wherever they put you for kidnapping.

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