The French Connection_A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy by Robin Moore

Author:Robin Moore [Moore, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Mystery, thriller
ISBN: 9781592280445
Amazon: 1592280447
Goodreads: 607485
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 1969-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Ever since his arrival in New York Jacques Angelvin had been irked by the dictum laid down by Scaglia and Jehan against taking his Buick out of the hotel garage. How was he to survey the great city "like a real American," as he had promised his vast television audience before leaving Paris, if he were not permit-ted to move at will? Taxis here were very expensive. As for exploring the city on foot — hardly comme il faut.

He understood what the auto contained, but he was sure there was no way it could be discovered. Would le grand Ed Sullivan tramp about Paris like a tourist?

But why had François and his friends not completed the transaction on schedule? That night, Jacques had reviewed the five days of his visit. So much had been frustrating. Arlette, the little girl from the ship, had left for Chicago on Thursday afternoon, only hours after the satisfying morning consummation of their shipboard flirtation. He had been forced to leave her at noon to meet Scaglia, which had not improved his disposition as he had walked uncertainly across the city to the bar of the Taft Hotel. Scaglia was awaiting him there, and they walked from the Taft to a small French restaurant in a street beyond the famed Broadway of which he had heard so many legends. This daylight glimpse of the avenue's brazen gaucherie was the first of his disappointments in New York.

At least his companion's conversation over luncheon was more encouraging. Scaglia and his associates hoped to conclude their negotiations by Saturday at the latest. Jacques was asked to be always available at the Waldorf, prepared to execute his simple assignment — to deliver the Buick to wherever he was directed. Meanwhile, the Corsican reiterated emphatically, his eyes hard, that the car was not to be moved.

Jacques asked almost plaintively when the transaction was a fait accompli, would he then be free to make full use of the Buick? Mais certainement, he was assured. While he was waiting, New York had been made at least bearable by Jacques's chic guide, the lovely Lilli DeBecque. Thursday evening they had enjoyed cocktails and dinner at the Café de La Paix at the Hotel St. Moritz. In spite of the cold, he and Lilli had taken a walk in Central Park, and later he suggested a nightcap at the Waldorf. She sipped brandy with him, but when he invited her up to his suite once again, she declined with firmness.

On Friday Angelvin visited Peter Selliers, a French journalist, and Paul Crenesse, head of the New York office of Radio Télévision Française. They took him to NBC to see the studios and meet some of the American producers.

Again that evening he and Lilli went out, first to the Plaza for dinner and afterwards to the Maisonette of the St. Regis Hotel. And again that night, Mademoiselle DeBecque returned alone to her apartment on East 20th Street and Angelvin occupied his suite in the Waldorf without company.

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