CHAPTER 9
Reuben stretched out on the living room couch, his most productive thinking position, reliving for the thousandth time his meeting with Frank in the Edinburgh Arms. He still couldn’t decide if Frank’s threat to take revenge on Lucy was genuine. If half the stories he’d heard in prison about him were true, Frank was more than capable of carrying it out.
Frank considered himself a big-time criminal, part of Brisbane’s underbelly, although general opinion in prison was that he was a wannabe, trying to muscle in on established territory. It was rumoured that a small-time drug dealer, Edward Theodore, known as Eddie Teddy, who was working for Frank, had had a one-night stand with his ex-wife. As Eddie loitered one night outside a Narcotics Anonymous meeting waiting to do a drug deal
