The Loop by Wesley Cross

Author:Wesley Cross [Cross, Wesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CERBERUS PRINTS
Published: 2019-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

24

New York

Ralph Perry opened the car wash every night at twenty to nine. It wasn’t a normal time for a regular car wash, but Perry was used to working during the odd hours. He started his career as a coke pusher in some of the seediest parts of Queens about twenty years before he was put in charge of Engel’s distribution business. He referred to himself as “half Italian, half Greek, and half trouble” and was a thin, average-built man with a dark face that some would describe as ruggedly good-looking.

Born and raised in the neighborhood, he knew every street like the back of his hand. But he had no intention of joining one of the warring gangs and staying a low-level scum roaming the streets at night. He had a bigger picture in mind.

His cousin had been working with a Bolivian cartel, transporting vast amounts of fine white powder across the southern border. Some of it inevitably was “lost” in the process, and a small amount of it ended up in Perry’s personal stash. But after trying to sell it to streetwalkers and junkies and narrowly avoiding reps from rivaling gangs, Perry decided that he needed to switch it up. He invested some of the money in clothes and hit the hottest nightclubs in all five boroughs and Long Island.

The stuff he was selling was no different from everybody else’s, but what Perry lacked in resources, he made up in imagination. After one of his trips to Bolivia, his cousin told him a tale about Devil’s Breath—a drug popular in Colombia that induced a zombie-like state in a user. Most stories about the drug included an attractive woman targeting a wealthy man and handing him a business card soaked in Devil’s Breath and then robbing him or kidnapping him for ransom. Most serious drug traffickers considered the drug to be an urban legend, but Perry liked the name, and a business idea had been born.

He had purchased a few dozen small black jewelry boxes and then had them stamped with a stylized pair of red horns. Instead of calling it Devil’s Breath, he translated the name into Spanish—Aliento del Diablo—to give it even more flair. He then proceeded to stuff the boxes with a small plastic bag of cocaine and sell them to wealthy clients at five times the street price.

The business boomed, and after a few short years Perry moved from his aunt’s basement to a three-story mansion in Long Island City, was seen driving a poisonous-yellow Lamborghini, and had distribution of his own. He tried to protect his business, too—instead of relying on his cousin, he recruited a few youngsters from his old neighborhood and had them purchase the powder from other dealers and deliver it to his facility, where he and his trusted crew repackaged the product.

He wasn’t delivering merchandise himself anymore either. Instead, he spent his time socializing with New York’s movers and shakers while dozens of his own well-dressed pushers were running around the city and servicing his loyal fans.

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