Triple by Ken Follett

Author:Ken Follett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780062109095
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-09-12T22:00:00+00:00

Nine

The don had bad a bad day. It had started at breakfast with the news that some of his People had been busted in the night. The police had stopped and searched a truck containing two thousand five hundred pairs of fur-lined bedroom slippers and five kilos of adulterated heroin. The load, on its way from Canada to New York City, had been hit at Albany. The smack was confiscated and the driver and co-driver jailed. 7he stuff did not belong to the don. However, the team that did the run paid dues to him, and In return expected Protection. They would want him to get the men out of jail and get the heroin back. It was close to impossible. He might have been able to do it if the bust had involved only the state police; but if only the state police had been involved, the bust would not have happened. And that was just the start. His eldest son had wired from Harvard for more money, having gambled away the whole of his next semester's allowance weeks before classes started. He bad spent the morning finding out why his chain of restaurants was losing money, and the afternoon explaining to his mistress why he could not take her to Europe this year. Finally his doctor told him he had gonorrhea. He looked in the dressing-room mirror, adjusting his bow tie, and said to himself, "What a shitty day." It had turned out that the New York City police had been behind the bust: they had passed the tip to the state police in order to avoid trouble with the city Mafia. The city police could have ignored the tip, of course: the fact that they did not was a sign that the tip had originated with someone important, perhaps the Drug Enforcement Agency of the Treasury Department. The don had assigned lawyers to the jailed drivers, sent people to visit their families and opened negotiations to buy back the heroin from the police. He put on his Jacket. He liked to change for dinner; he always had. He did not know what to do about his son Johnny. Why wasn't he home for the summer? College boys were supposed to come home for the summer. The don had thought of sending somebody to see Johnny; but then the boy would think his father was only worried about the money. It looked like he would have to go himself. The phone rang, and the don picked it up. "Yes."

"Gate here, sir. I got an Englishman asking for you, won't give his name."

"So send him away," said the don, still thinking about Johnny. "He said to tell you he's a friend from Oxford University."

"I don't know anybody ... wait a minute. What's he look like?"

"Little guy with glasses, looks like a bum."

"'No kidding!" The don's face broke into a smile. "Bring him in-and put out the red carpet!"

It had been a year for seeing old friends and observing how

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