When I glanced in the mirror at my face, it was stiff and cold, skin tight and grayish. I’d expected to feel satisfaction, some kind of relief. This was the last kill I’d make in the USA, maybe for the rest of my life. It had been a long two weeks, and now that we were nearly there, I felt hollow, sour, even bored. The Yaroshenko Organizatsiya had been planting bodies there since my grandfather’s day, and if the Feds ever found it, they’d have enough bones to keep the world in human ivory for the next decade. We were headed north along the Interstate, gunning for a place that a long-dead gangster had nicknamed Bozya Akra, God’s Acre. Snappy Joe Grassia – Manelli hitman, renowned sadist, and murdering piece of human waste – was hog-tied in my trunk. Vengeance, like most fantasies, is better in the imagining than it is in the execution.
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