Three
The surprise was all on my side, since he’d heard my name from the receptionist. He was sitting there smiling at me, but there was about as much warmth in it as you’d find on top of Mount Everest. His strong-arm boy was sitting in a chair in a corner of the office. He wasn’t even bothering to smile.
“Well,” I said, stepping into the office and closing the door, “I see you’re a man of many interests. You run a club at night and a union in the day. It must be a profitable kind of moonlighting.”
“I make out,” he said. “I thought you were leaving Cleveland today, March.”
“I was, but I got a new job that’ll keep me here for a day or two.”
“What’s it got to do with me?”
“I didn’t know it had anything to do with you until just now. I’m interested in a man named Thomas Rako.”
“What’re
