The Deal by Michael Palmer

Author:Michael Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / General, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

I spent three days planning my next move. The Harpy had given me an incredibly valuable piece of knowledge. Now, I had to make use of it. Profit from it. Bobby Petrie had made his fortune in Las Vegas, and if it was good enough for him then it was good enough for me. But, I would need seed money for the move and I wasn’t going to risk going to prison to get it. I was immortal. I could take enormous risks with my life, but not with my freedom. The answer was Turk Winslow, the biggest drug dealer in Logan. Before I went to jail, I had done some bill collecting and some low-level dealing for Turk. I knew that every Tuesday, he paid off his distributors from a room in the Starlight Motel that he rented year-round, peeling hundred-dollar bills from a stack the size of a brick. Turk was a violent son-of-a-bitch, but the one thing he would never do is involve the police in his business.

It was even easier than I thought it would be. I bought a cheap pistol off one of the Rabid Dogs and took it to Turk’s room at the Starlight. Ordinarily, Turk never went anywhere without two oversized bodyguards, but this Tuesday—for whatever reason—he was on his own. I was lucky. No. I was more than lucky. I was immortal. Turk looked into my eyes and saw the complete absence of fear. He turned over the money without a word of complaint.

Turk’s brick was my seed money. My ticket to glory.

I flew to Vegas, bought a Corvette, black instead of red, and checked into the Bellagio. The next day, I looked up Bobby Petrie. I found him in his office at the Boneyard, a combination low-rent casino and even lower-rent strip club.

I told Bobby that I was looking for a big score and I wasn’t afraid of danger. Did he know anyone who had anything that would fit the bill? As a matter of fact, he did. Bobby and his partner had a little problem that they needed taken care of. They were having a “business disagreement” with a relative newcomer from Hong Kong. Kai Fang was fronting in Vegas for the Chinese mob. The Boneyard was going to be their foot in the door and they wanted it at a steep discount. Fang had made clear that he wouldn’t take no for an answer. Bobby offered me more money than I had ever dreamed of to make Fang go away… permanently.

Fang was always surrounded by heavily armed men, and the only place he was ever alone was inside his penthouse apartment. Two men were on guard in the lobby and two more outside his door. But I had no intention of going through the front. I was always a damn good athlete and even before I became immortal I was never afraid of heights. I actually worked as a roofer one summer. Fang’s building was perfect for climbing, with gaps between the stones that made for easy handholds.

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