Klempner

A dozen of them…

Or more.

I know where to find at least one of Juliana’s heavies. So I might as well reduce the numbers a bit…

Improve the odds.

And oddly, I find I have another motive.

The things we learn about ourselves…

I realise that the idea of coercing the old man’s hard-earned cash away from him offends me.

That’s new…

Wonder how much they’ve had off him over the years…?

Why do they call it ‘Protection’?

Call it what it is…

Extorting money with menaces…

that Wonder Boy is liable to turn up at about the same time as on previous occasions.

Antonio’s bar gives me what I want: a view

Juliana, or at least to the poor sap whose

same routine with Antonio. He does, except that this time, helps himself to a

the rigours of the hot day, he makes for the clothes store

Yup…

Same routine…

Same targets…

his comrade-in-arms, he’s not paying attention to what’s

the

the same routine as when I followed him on the first occasion. I follow at a discreet distance

alley: a

That will do nicely…

piss or to

cent off

quick shufti around the

by a couple of tall trash cans and not much more. Wonder Boy’s standing just beyond the cans with his back to me, recycling Antonio’s beer against

doesn’t even hear me until I’m almost on top of him. When he does

face screwed up, obviously recognising

close up, his pupils are huge, dilated well beyond

Does he ever learn?

Too late now…

towards his eyes, then back at me. “Eu vejo você, Senhor Klempner.” And

then across his throat. He drops with barely a sound, his cock still hanging out of his pants, clutching at his throat

Slit throats are a messy business and it’s broad daylight. I don’t want to have to exit the

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