Tsing-Boum (2014)
“He disliked tape-recorders.
‘Piet Hartsuiker reports all negative on intruder in flat-block Van Lennep.’ ‘Rik and Gerard have neighbourhood pattern on Zomerlust/ Marx. Negative on unusual circumstance or particular friendship.’ ‘Labo much interested by weapon reported Uzzi s.m.g. what the hell?’ Indeed. What the hell?
‘Get me Amsterdam, Technical Services … Lab? Ballistics there? … Sam? – Sam? What is this animal? – a Japanese motorbike?’ Jewish snickers came down the line.
‘Now you’ve come to ...exactly the right shop, Mister.’ ‘Huh?’ ‘Israeli, very nice, extremely simple, remarkable little weapon.’ ‘Sammy, sonny, don’t go technical. Guns bore me. Would it go under a raincoat without being noticed?’ ‘Go down your pants leg if you want it to, Mister.’ Since the only possible answer to this was an obscenity, he obliged, put the phone down, and asked himself who the fornication walked about in Holland with an Israeli army sub-machine gun. It remained a simple, neat, thoroughly professional killing, but this rococo flourish of childish melodramatics irritated, intrigued … Nobody Dutch did such things.MoreLess
‘Piet Hartsuiker reports all negative on intruder in flat-block Van Lennep.’ ‘Rik and Gerard have neighbourhood pattern on Zomerlust/ Marx. Negative on unusual circumstance or particular friendship.’ ‘Labo much interested by weapon reported Uzzi s.m.g. what the hell?’ Indeed. What the hell?
‘Get me Amsterdam, Technical Services … Lab? Ballistics there? … Sam? – Sam? What is this animal? – a Japanese motorbike?’ Jewish snickers came down the line.
‘Now you’ve come to ...exactly the right shop, Mister.’ ‘Huh?’ ‘Israeli, very nice, extremely simple, remarkable little weapon.’ ‘Sammy, sonny, don’t go technical. Guns bore me. Would it go under a raincoat without being noticed?’ ‘Go down your pants leg if you want it to, Mister.’ Since the only possible answer to this was an obscenity, he obliged, put the phone down, and asked himself who the fornication walked about in Holland with an Israeli army sub-machine gun. It remained a simple, neat, thoroughly professional killing, but this rococo flourish of childish melodramatics irritated, intrigued … Nobody Dutch did such things.MoreLess
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