The Child Taker is Criminally Insane Box Set, Book 1 and 2 Detective Alec Ramsay Series by Conrad Jones

Author:Conrad Jones [Jones, Conrad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gerricon Books
Published: 2013-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Leon Tanner

Leon pushed open the front door of a shop called, ‘Crazy Computers’. Situated next to a Chinese chippy and a sunbed salon, it stood on a bend in the road opposite a carwash. The road led to the docklands at the mouth of the Mersey. Most of the small butchers, bakers and post offices were long gone. The supermarket chains had slowly strangled their profit margins until it was impossible to continue trading. There were a few new businesses trying to establish themselves; Polish food stores and Turkish barbers were dotted about every half a mile or so.

Leon looked at the frontage from inside. The glass was thick with grease and there was a display of keyboards in the window covered in a thick layer of dust. The shop had never sold a single computer in the five years it had been there. It was a front for the brothel above it. A staircase led up to the first floor. The hundreds of punters who trudged up them every week in search of sex had left the beige carpet soiled with their footprints. Leon had a soft spot for the building. Although it was a rundown dilapidated whorehouse, it was the first one that he had opened and it represented the start of his business enterprises. The first woman he had pimped out was his younger sister. She was slow and had had a string of boyfriends before she was sixteen. Leon had thought that if she was going to be a slut, then she might as well make him some money at the same time.

He had pimped her out to his friends and their associates. Heroin had been her best friend and as long as he had kept her stoned, she had gone along with it. She was a looker and word had soon spread that she was on sale. It hadn’t been long before he had taken on another local girl who had been struggling against a heroin addiction and needed the money urgently. Leon had decided that he could supply her with both, and so his empire had started to grow. Within twelve months, he had paid cash for five lockups across the city and he had peddled sex and heroin from both. He had been making a lot of money when his ambitions had focused on the growing crack cocaine market. His customers had been moving away from the brown and using crack instead. It hadn’t mattered to Leon what they took, he had decided to supply it.

He had found it difficult to find a regular reliable supplier of the drug. It had been hitting the streets in dribs and drabs and the price had yo-yoed. Two of the city’s notorious crime families had been at war over the supply of crack and their armed struggle had been driving their dealers underground, which had disrupted supply to the users on the streets. Leon had seen a gap in the market and decided to exploit it.

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