For the Love of Pete (2009)
“Tony the Rose sat at a huge steel and glass desk in his mansion office in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Chicago. His office was a dark room because the black vertical blinds were pulled permanently over the windows. Tony didn’t like the thought of someone looking in the room from outside. Maybe taking a shot at him from the outside. Better to live in the half light than be highlighted on a stage. Besides, he wasn’t too interested in the view: trees with maybe a glimpse now and then... of a Rottweiler patrolling the grounds.
On the wall opposite his desk was a fifty-seven-inch flat-screen TV with the sound off. It was tuned to the Weather Channel. A plate of Pepperidge Farm sugar cookies lay on the green ink blotter in front of him. Next to it, a Cuban cigar smoldered in a cut-glass ashtray. Tony sipped espresso from a tiny gold-rimmed glass cup and thought about what a pain in the ass his family was.
“That Fed double-crossed us,” Leo, his right-hand man, said. Leo was sitting on the other side of the desk in a red armchair, bony knees poking up.MoreLess
On the wall opposite his desk was a fifty-seven-inch flat-screen TV with the sound off. It was tuned to the Weather Channel. A plate of Pepperidge Farm sugar cookies lay on the green ink blotter in front of him. Next to it, a Cuban cigar smoldered in a cut-glass ashtray. Tony sipped espresso from a tiny gold-rimmed glass cup and thought about what a pain in the ass his family was.
“That Fed double-crossed us,” Leo, his right-hand man, said. Leo was sitting on the other side of the desk in a red armchair, bony knees poking up.MoreLess
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