POV: Eli
Eli and Jimmy watched Roman and two of his men drag a thrashing Mac Rattray out of the interrogation room and into the service lift that would go straight to the basement garage. From there, they would deliver the Rat to Anthony Murello, who had an underground holding cell beside McCarran Airport.
Big Tony was anything but big. He was a small, pudgy man with a bad leg in his fifties, who looked like a cross between Danny DeVito and Martin Scorsese with his horn-rimmed glasses and walking stick. He was mild-mannered and he talked with a lisp. He didn't look imposing at all.
But looks could be deceiving.
And in Big Tony's case, he'd deceived a lot of lowlife con artists and bookies who had tried to cross him. Big Tony ran backroom gambling operations all over Nevada and Atlantic
