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Line of Duty

A few minutes before midnight, Clarence Samuel Gravitano carefully turned the Lincoln Mark IV down the dimly lighted alley. The windshield wipers, set to the lowest intermittent setting against the constant mist, moved to the right across the windshield, then back to the left. Through the streaked windshield to the left lay a row of docks. Beyond them was the Atlantic Ocean, and it was raging, slamming against the massive upright timbers that marked the edge … Read more

The Bad Man and the Boxer

When Basilone Thompson’s fight manager died suddenly of a drug overdose, it came as a surprise. The Big Bass had never known his manager to indulge in so much as a marijuana cigarette. When a new manager showed up unannounced at his apartment in the Bronx one day, he was grateful, but skeptical. He answered the light knock on the door. The man in the hallway was dressed neatly in a suit and tie, with a … Read more