Running Scared
“A warrant had been issued for his arrest in connection with a raid on a City bank vault which had netted an undisclosed sum in gold ingots and other valuables in safety deposit boxes. No one could ever be sure just how much the raiders had got away with, because many of the deposit box owners had been strangely coy about the contents, but the gold alone had made it a major robbery. Of the gang, most had been picked up and several gaoled. Grice alone remained at large and, more importantly, he k...new where the loot was. Virtually none of that had been recovered. Ironically, Grice was described as being not a violent man, but a planner, an ideas merchant. The journalist was being deliberately naive, I thought. If you’re in charge, you don’t need to be violent yourself. You’ve got underlings to do that sort of thing for you, the actual orders issued by middle-ranking thugs in your employ. That way, Grice and others like him kept their hands clean. They were the clever clogs who got clean away with the dosh, while other mugs got banged up, and snoopers like Coverdale got dead. I sat back, the cooling coffee in my grip, the magazine lying open on my lap.MoreLess
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