The Instruments Of Peace

July, 1999

The Instruments of Peacei hired a mobster's son to work the farm. things didn't work out the way i expectedThe kid drove up in a chartreuse sports car. Convertible. He arrived with the top down, his dark hair windblown, a small gold ring in his right ear. When he stepped out of that car in my driveway, wearing blue jeans and a red T-shirt, my 16-year-old daughter went ghost pale and leaned back against the wall by the living room window. I was in the kitchen making breakfast, scrambling eggs in...