Minggu, 03 Januari 2010

Machine Gun Work

"Hymie the Riveter was a Philadelphia racketeer who had moved north to the big city, carrying a Thompson submachine gun wrapped in blue-checkered oil cloth, after a disagreement with his partners. New York wasn't so good a field as Philadelphia for machine gun work. The Thompson lay idle for a year or so while Hymie made expenses with an automatic, preying on small-time crap games in Harlem."

From "Fly Paper" by Dashiell Hammett

(Photo: the mug shot of real-life Philadelphia racketeer Mickey Duffy.)

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