Chapter Twenty-FiveFor once, Rico stuck around and waited for the police. Despite his long life of crime, he had never even been arrested. In part that was because he never left any clues – or witnesses if it came to that. It was also due in part to the fact that, apart from the time he was ambushed by Larry's buddies outside the supermarket, he'd always been long gone by the time the police arrived. Certainly, as he'd told Lieutenant Cannon, they knew all too well who he was. But neither they nor the State's Attorney could ever pin anything on him.
A neighbor had dialed 911 shortly after Rico's car slammed into the one carrying Gus, Larry, and the other two goons. The police didn't arrive, though, until about five minutes after Rico killed Larry. That gave the survivors time to decide wh
