All of which, to his mothers dismay, her only son ran as a sort of absentee landlord while he was out drug smuggling for sport, spending a year and a half in prison, and then having the gall to go gallivanting on his motorcycles, rather than tucking his tail between his legs and crawling home, which was what everyone had expected at the time. In spite of all that, or perhaps because of it, Willis made a success of things. His personal worth was, including real estate and capital equipment, something in excess of two hundred million dollars. Ramonas fortune was several times larger than that, and would, eventually, fall to her only son, if the endless stream of stylish boyfriends didnt manage to squander it all first. What it meant was that L. John Willis, to all intents and purposes, w

