Why Me? by Donald Westlake

Author:Donald Westlake [Westlake, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-06-19T08:35:43.974000+00:00

They threatened to leave New York.

The word got around, whispered but clear. New York might think it had lost this and that in the past — the New York Giants left for the Jersey swamps, American Airlines left for Dallas, dozens of corporate headquarters left for Connecticut, for a while even the Stock Exchange threatened to leave — but if you want real trouble, imagine New York if the Mafia got up and left. Think of all those mob–infiltrated businesses — with the gangsters gone, who would operate them? The same clowns who’d run them into the ground in the first place, bailing themselves out with the black–money loans that had made the mob infiltration possible, that’s who. Think of all those restaurants, linen services, finance companies, automobile dealerships, private garbage collectors, supermarkets, truck lines, and janitorial companies without the discipline, expertise, and financial depth of mob control. Think of what New York would be like with its businesses run by their nominal owners.

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