Chapter 7Late afternoon arrived before Jimmy finally made his way down to Chinatown, several hours after his revealing visit with Lourdes Inshan. On the subway ride, he’d considered he didn’t have enough information about the slippery Mr. Wu-Tin and his supposed import-export empire, which made Jimmy apprehensive about invading enemy territory. He wanted to know more about what he was getting himself into.
Riding the Four train to Union Square, he would have had to switch anyway to the local Six for the station stop at Canal Street, but instead of waiting eight minutes for the train—according to the countdown clock—he went topside, emerging under the big green kiosk at the southern edge of the park. He needed a place to sit and think and plan his method of attack. He remembered a great ol
