A radio turned low vibrated with the sounds of a baseball game. No wonder he hadnt been interested when Id walked in. This year the playoffs for the World Series were as exciting as any in the last decade. No, no it couldnt have been him. Then, Granddads so lonely. He never got over my grandmother’s death. He’s got all those photos of her all over the house and now he’s a big-time Catholic again. He goes to Mass three times a week.’ Absolutely true, and he was on the hit list. Thats three gone, and nobodys laid a glove on the guy. He pointed this remark in Dinos direction. Turning downtown, Second Avenue, a young mans voice said. Black BMW, rider wearing black. Unfortunately, Dave had gotten involved with three or four cops who shared the racist and anti-government opinions hed picked up in the military. The only thing she could compare it to was a religious conversion. Hed fixed up their basement as a kind of headquarters, the walls covered with ugly racist and anti-government posters. Hed started buying expensive guns. The lawyer sat in his canoe, binoculars ready, waiting. There was no slightest indication from the house that any untoward events were in the making. But then she would come back for something even more specific? I said. Oxley looked up at me.You wanta know the reason why he says he knew they were Levis? Then put your new things back into the boxes, and Ill have them stowed on the airplane. You can plunder Paris tomorrow. Five hundred an hour. But for you, two-fifty. You told me. Well, will you fill him in? See how he makes me sound, Dev? My wife was almost assassinated last night and he makes me sound like some vain pussy who doesnt give a shit about it. I want to look good for her sake. Im representingher. He has me looking like some guy who sits around in a shirt all day. Devine nodded and closed his eyes as the morphine flowed into him, engaging in a pitched battle with the pain ebbing just below the surface of his punctured shoulder. Have you thought about food stamps? I guess youre going to blame me for releasing the list to the press. Roger Vullo. That same year. Sixty-four. Early sixty-four. And Mason was smiling as he hung up the telephone. I do..