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Clean Brake: A Pulp/Thriller Classic By Lionel White!
Clean Brake: A Pulp/Thriller Classic By Lionel White!
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There was a look of stern reproach on his wide, flat face. Big Mike was a moral and straight-laced man, in spite of a weakness for playing the horses and an even greater weakness for over excess in eating. Sixty years old, a good Catholic and the father of a teen-aged daughter, he highly disapproved of the younger generation. Particularly that segment of it he saw each day lined up at the bar in front of himself.
Automatically he picked up a handful of used glasses from the bar and went back to thinking of money. Once more he thought of that vast sum--a million, perhaps even two million dollars. And then, from the money, his mind went to Johnny Clay.
Johnny Clay was a good boy. In spite of the four years in prison, in spite of his criminal record and everything else, Johnny was still a good boy. Mike's vanity had been very pleased when Johnny had remembered him from the old days and had looked him up, once he was out of....
There was a look of stern reproach on his wide, flat face. Big Mike was a moral and straight-laced man, in spite of a weakness for playing the horses and an even greater weakness for over excess in eating. Sixty years old, a good Catholic and the father of a teen-aged daughter, he highly disapproved of the younger generation. Particularly that segment of it he saw each day lined up at the bar in front of himself.
Automatically he picked up a handful of used glasses from the bar and went back to thinking of money. Once more he thought of that vast sum--a million, perhaps even two million dollars. And then, from the money, his mind went to Johnny Clay.
Johnny Clay was a good boy. In spite of the four years in prison, in spite of his criminal record and everything else, Johnny was still a good boy. Mike's vanity had been very pleased when Johnny had remembered him from the old days and had looked him up, once he was out of....
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