"“Don’t fuck with me Mac. I’ll shoot ya ass, I swear to God,”"
The hinges holding their hideout’s door rattled as it flew open and rebounded. She stormed in, threw down two black gym bags filled with cash and kept it moving.“Ginger. Ginger!” her partner strolling behind with three more bags exclaimed.“What! What...
"A sociopathic police detective investigates text messages from her long dead lesbian lover."
Detective Erica Vargas wore her gender like a uniform. She looked at the younger woman across the table. The faint gulp told as much as the perky yellow sweater with bright greek letters. Vargas's favorite tell was the makeup marred...
"A stranded sex addict's saving grace."
A work assignment had pulled Sai into going to a country that was starting to prosper but riddled with crime. The country that Sai was in led the world in murder rates and was a hotbed for all kinds of...
"Is teaming up with a hot brunette and a cheerleader the best way to bring down a crime boss?"
Wheels. I'm as choosy about wheels as women these days. Wasn't always that way. While I can drive pretty much anything with an engine, I've found I only truly enjoy that thunder beneath the hood. The rush when pedal meets...
"The Hollywood Madam was not his type, but business was business."
The fact of the matter was that Lenny was gone forever and there was no chance of him ever fucking a deal up again. I knew that and Ramon knew it and a handful of our handlers back east knew...
"The two girls were almost identical but their needs for sex were not similar at all."
The whole rental business of the pleasure boats was in its own way a scam for the owners to get access to the guests' personal details. That allowed their customers to win the free chips for gambling that might send...
"Jackie and Jill both looked identical when they were naked, only one's pointed tongue was a clue."
My initial reaction to the newly assigned duties was a sense of disappointment. I had imagined being supervisor to a bevy of beautiful broads all begging me to service them after the curtain went down. Actually, it was a stroke of good...
"Ramon reported that Lenny had taken one in the head and two in the chest.. final curtain."
I suspected that Ramon knew how guilty I felt at throwing poor Lenny under the bus, but in the scheme of things, I don’t see how I had any other alternative. The big boys back on the East Coast were...
"The Russians shit-canned Lenny and they were probably right."
Our transition from Hollywood back to Sin City was smooth enough that it didn’t make any late edition headline or boring obituary entry in California, or in any rudderless rag back in Nevada. In these dangerous days of gangland warfare,...
"Lenny's options are shrinking every day."
The scuttlebutt from the casino owner crowd was that henceforward Lenny Mazurka was no longer welcome inside the city limits of Las Vegas, Reno and even the more sedate Lake Tahoe gambling establishments. There was a sense of finality about...