The Shunned by Jay Hughes
Author:Jay Hughes
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: M/M Contemporary, Source: Amazon
ISBN: 9781607773252
Publisher: Ravenous Romance
Published: 2010-03-03T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Eleven
Lenny “The Elbow” Morazzini and Tony “Fatlips” Provenzano were lying facedown on top of a grassy ridge overlooking the village of Lofstad, gazing at the tiny Amish town through high-powered binoculars. Lenny was wearing one of his expensive sharkskin suits that he had custom-made at his favorite Italian tailor’s shop in West Philly, oblivious to the mud puddle beneath him that ruined the luxurious imported silk-cashmere blend. He ruined suits almost every day in his line of work, after all—why worry when he could just call up Luigi at the tailor’s and order a dozen new ones tomorrow? Money was nothing to Lenny, and neither was imported silk-cashmere that cost forty-three bucks a yard.
Lenny and his sharkskin suit stuck out like a sore thumb in rustic Lancaster County, but Tony was a veteran mob gun-for-hire who knew how to blend in wherever he went. He wore a set of castoff Amish homespun and a wide-brimmed black felt hat he’d picked up at a tourist-trap souvenir shop in the county seat. While the folks back in Philly gave their old, outgrown clothes to the Salvation Army, the Amish pawned them off on tourists. Which suited Tony just fine. The homespun wool and linen hugged his body like a second skin, and the litany of old sweat stains and hand-sewn repairs just made him look like a dyed-in-the-wool Amish farmer who’d returned from a hard day’s work in the fields. He’d even rolled around in the mud a little to make the clothes seem more “lived in.” If anyone asked how he got so dirty, he’d just tell them he did it putting in a crop of winter wheat back at his village in Western Pennsylvania this morning, then hopped a van driven by “an English” to Lancaster County for today’s errand. Should he run into any of the locals before he had a chance to find a safe hiding place for him and Lenny, his cover story was that he was here from the newer Amish communities in Western Pennsylvania to buy a set of new plow blades from Lofstad’s renowned blacksmith, and Lenny was just “the English” who had driven him here.
Tony had come up with that one himself. He wasn’t particularly proud of it, either. To him, cooking up a creative and believable cover story was just another day at the office. As a mob hit man with almost twenty years’ experience in the field, he was a master when it came to cooking up cover stories. In his long and storied career of murder-for-hire, he’d been everything from a short-order cook in Fresno to a casino manager in Reno to a long-haul Southern truck driver. He could slip on the trappings of another place, another life, like he could a set of warm flannel pajamas. He could execute his missions with pristine accuracy, too—in more than twenty years and over three hundred kills, he’d never once been caught. Tony was so good at his job, he was invisible even to the cops—he’d never even taken the slightest bit of heat.
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