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“A capo,” Agent Bayswater says, still glaring at Rainy “Or underboss”
“Underboss Le ot faet area And he has a son naht here in New York Cisco has gotten himself into a heap of trouble”
Bayswater says, “Racketeering, pandering, pornography, and loan-sharking Only, Cisco screwed up and got overly as to a colored gang up in Harlem But see, there’s a peace deal between the Wops and the coons, and the Five Faht noithmoney hand over fist on the docks and off drunk soldiers Cisco shot a
colored boy as connected, see, and now it’s blood for blood”
The full truth begins to dawn on Rainy “You’re going to offer to get Cisco toto a safe place And you want et my father to introduce me to Camporeale and—”
“Vito the Sack, they call him” Bayswater now comes close He puts his hands on the back of Rainy’s chair, leans down so she can feel his breath on the side of her neck “Because when a fellow displeases him, see, he likes to take a razor and swipe, swipe, the ”
Without turning to face hiet et hie, we’ll save his son”
Bayswater is taken aback by her calrip on her seat back Of course her cal with complications and personal fears, the fore her father with this She wrote to him months earlier to let him know that she knows about his other activities But since co home on leave she and her father have neverhim to face it? To face the fact that his activities have now ensnared his daughter? That feels very, very hard to Rainy
On the other hand, part of Rainy is excited The part of her that wants to contribute so the eant, one of hundreds of thousands of such in the US Arn She could help to save the lives of GIs like those she met in Tunisia She has fondJack Stafford, and she was amazed—and just a little scared—by Rio Richlin
Since the desperate co woman, Rio, has insinuated herself into Rainy’s e Amazon brutality has affected Rainy’s worldview, has shown her a glimpse of a future in which ideas of masculinity and femininity could be utterly transformed There is a revolution in Rio Richlin (ould no doubt snort derisively at such a notion) All over the country wo jobs previously reserved for men only All over the world clever woory—are contributing their intelligence and insight to the war effort But women have alorked, if not as shipfitters and aircraft mechanics, then asback to the tih to wield real power, though often it was from behind the scenes
But Rio, and wo in an area that has always been reserved to men: Rio is a warrior She and others like her have shown that girls—woressive Woe the world
She’s sure it will have no effect on the ent Bayswater, but for Rainy it feels like a challenge
Colonel Corelli takes charge again as the FBI ive us a full report of the contact You must attempt to convince the directly with Vito Camporeale, you will prepare a full report on him and on anyone else associated with him”
“Of course,” Rainy says
“And on your father,” Bayswater adds