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Lenny Duveteaux was on the phone with his attorney. “Oscar. You know anybody in the INS?”
“The what?”
“The INS. Immigration and Naturalization Service.”
“You mean the Department of Homeland Security?”
“Yeah, yeah, whatever spook s**t they’re calling it now. I’m trying to find out about the status of a non-American living in the States.”
He figured the easiest way to deal with the whole Rickey/Tanker situation would be to get Jaap Noteboom deported. A little rustling through the leaves of his restaurant grapevine had told him that if Jaap were to leave, the hotel manager would probably promote the pastry chef, Martina Jesus-Vasquez, to executive chef. He knew Tanker and Martina couldn’t stand each other, so Tanker would surely quit and return to Liquor. This would bypass the entire
