Beaks Returns
in
Terrapin Sky Tango
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I need to scrub the blood off my reputation.
Yes, “mess with Beaks and she will utterly destroy everything you love” is a useful addition to it. And a rep should grow with you, developing fine notes and subtleties, so that it becomes worthy of a connoisseur’s attention and a higher billing rate.
But a reputation is your best advertising. I can’t put up billboards to broadcast my services. What would they say? Beaks: She Steals, so You Don’t Have To? Maybe Six Feet of Skinny Sneakiness? Or Limber. Lethal. Lawless.
No, the only way people learn about me is by word of mouth.
Or the bulletin board at the local Interpol office.
Plus, I’m told there’s an FBI agent that has my picture in his office, my smiling Mediterranean face
