Midnight on Church Street…
A thick white mist blows from my lips as I exhale. Winter’s been especially brutal this year in Chicago. It’s a bitter cold, but it’s nothing the crew hasn’t seen before. Everyone’s dressed for the part, except, of course, for the man from the Bureau. With nothing but a wool suit and a fancy hat, my guess would have been that he’d never been north of Atlanta. He didn’t even have gloves on. Kept his hands stuffed so deep in his pockets it looked like he was about to put two new holes in his jacket. I almost felt bad for the bastard. Maybe I would have offered him the pair I kept in the trunk if he hadn’t made it known how much of a prick he was right off the bat.
“I don’t know how you Mickeys do things up here, but back home, the local cops know who’s in charge,” he’d said with a smug look on his face. “That’s me. This is my operation, and I didn’t take a train halfway across the fuckin’ country to have a bunch of Micks and Wops in blue fuck it up. Hear me?”