The Bomb Squad by Neil Perry Gordon

Author:Neil Perry Gordon [Gordon, Neil Perry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

“Good evening, sir,” said the doorman.

“Good evening, George,” Harold said, stepping through the grand doorway of the club.

Harold took the carpeted staircase to the second floor and made his way down the hallway to the Friendship meeting room. He opened the door and poked his head in.

“Please come in, Doctor, we’re ready for you,” said Bert Wolff, the president of the planning committee.

Harold expressed his smile to each of the faces looking at him from around the large round table. This is an eager group, he thought as he took a seat.

Bert held his arms out and said, “We are eager to hear your ideas, Dr. Schwartz, about honoring the financier J.P. Morgan with an event.”

*

“Can you hail me a taxi?” Harold asked George as he stepped out onto Sixtieth Street.

“Sure thing, sir,” he said, and raised his arm high in the air and blew into the whistle that he had hanging off his neck.

Moments later Harold was heading west along Central Park South. The open-air wagon was the perfect way to head home. The breeze coming down the street cooled him and allowed him to think about the meeting he had just left.

*

The planning committee thought it a great idea to present a special award to Morgan, as he expected they would. One of their main missions was to organize events that would draw the attention of New York society to their club, and this would be their crowning achievement of the upcoming fall season.

When the excitement settled, the first question was, “Have you asked Mr. Morgan if he would attend?”

Harold shook his head. “There was no point in asking until I knew there was interest in inviting him here.”

The members shook their heads vigorously.

“Great! We need to entice him with something that he would find advantageous to his lofty status.”

After a vigorous debate, the committee decided that in order to lure the great man to their club, they would create a new honor that they would call America’s Patriot Award.

While the idea was a collaboration of the group, Bert Wolff took the credit, and said he would send Mr. Morgan a letter from the Planning Committee of The Harmonie Club right away.

Harold had known that the award from the Harmonie Club would strike the right chord with Morgan’s oversized ego. He imagined the great man standing at the podium, making a grand speech about how the Allies were winning the war. Harold smiled at the thought of an assassin rising from the audience, pointing a handgun and shouting, “Long live Kaiser Wilhelm,” and firing a shot into the chest of J.P. Morgan.

No one would expect an assassination attempt at such an event. The only missing link to the plan was—who would do the deed?

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