'Now open the door before I open it with you,' Tony Valleri said in a brutalist form of monotone to the porter who stood by the entrance to Krisnial's hotel. The crime boss had a bluntness lain upon his every inflection implying to anyone in his vicinity that they were about to become a statistic. … Continue reading A Confrontation in the Lobby
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The Polite Way to Fight with Knives
Tensions were high. Tenison, by definition, usually alluded to a state of elevated drama, but today this suspense seemed as though a new level of dramatic *oomf* had been tentatively poured into a glass and then hurled into oncoming traffic. ‘What if I were to place this knife so far up your arse that you … Continue reading The Polite Way to Fight with Knives