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“I’ht now, because Finn’s sending us both to Europe next month,” I said

Best idea Finn had ever had, in my opinion

That caught Shan off guard, unsurprisingly “Why on earth would he sendin Europe?”

I decided to give him a watered-down version and put the ereat card to play as well Aye, you gotta go, Shan, because your son can’t focus on his job when he’s worried about you, and he thinks a change of scenery will help I’d play every card in the deck if I had to

Chapter 13

It was time to end this

And there was no AC in the little building we’d acquired near the airport, which consisted of three ser room that’d once been a convenience store But it was freestanding in an area that became abandoned after office hours, and nobody could hear an Italian scream, so it’d been kind of perfect

“There’s no way they’ll confirm the last items” I scanned the list in Finn’s hand for the fourth time We’d crossed off nine out of eleven pieces of inforate the Italians about, and I believed we’d reached the end

Sleep-deprived andlike canaries about their own children and personal lives—details Eric had been able to confirher than theanization that remained In particular, there were threeup Our crew in Italy kept track of their families, but the men themselves were in the wind, and we suspected they were important At least one of them was directly related to Gio Avellino, the boss we’d killed last year Another was related through e

But if the two Italians ere keeping here could barely give us the last name of the man they’d taken orders from, hoere they supposed to know about inner-circle associates?

Another problem with the Avellinos was hoidespread their operations had been prior to the war They’d had dealings in several European countries, which ether—or rather, been suher-up, but association didn’t ated for the past several weeks had, for instance, been based in Barcelona The odds of the the current whereabouts of the three reat

Finn crumpled the list into a ball and stuck it in his pocket, and he frowned as he lit a cigarette “I just wanna le And for the record, I thought they gave up the information about their loved ones way too easily”

He was underesti restrained to a chair could do to a person By the ti the whip, they’d already been tortured in a way