The Prettyman Plan

The Prettyman PlanDon Vito Piazzagrande was holding a transistor radio in his hand and he had the earplug extension fixed in his ear, where it nested like a white bug in a cabbage leaf. He was laughing soundlessly at something he alone could hear and the gold crowns on his large, ugly teeth winked in the morning Caribbean sun.Across the white tablecloth Don Vito's breakfast partner, the former director of the FBI, showed his annoyance and dug fiercely into his grapefruit with a spoon. There were...