Chapter 43: Happy Birthday, TonyCHAPTER 43
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TONY
Brooklyn—20 Months Ago
Frankie drove through heavy traffic on his way in. Not abnormal, but when done every day, a person prayed for those miraculous days when, for some unexplainable reason, there were few people on the road. Today was not one of them. Morreau said he had a new assignment for Frankie. He was both excited and worried, especially now that Nicky was back. Officially Nicky was a union rep for the plumbers, but Frankie didn’t buy that for a minute. He didn’t want to know what Nicky really did, but he suspected it wasn’t good, and his hunches were usually on target. The problem was that his intuition got skewed when dealing with friends.
A half an hour later, he pulled into the parking lot. Ted greeted him with
