Tamara de Lempicka Two Friends painting

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their own, they would assume you’d come after them next, and they would use their power to ruin you one way or another.In another gangster-ridden era, in a crusade against corruption, Eliot Ness had led a force of law-enforcement agents so a city councilman for murder.“Take a look at these.” He opened a nine-by-twelve manila envelope, withdrew the contents, and passed them across the table.[63] As Hazard reviewed what he’d been given, Ethan told him about the five black boxes beyond reach by bribery and so undeterred by bullets that they became known as the Untouchables. In contemporary California, even Ness and his exemplary crew would be destroyed not by bribes or bullets, but by bureaucracy wielded as ruthlessly as an ax and by slander eagerly converted to libel by a feeding-frenzy media with a sentimental affection for the thugs, both the elected and unelected varieties, upon whom they daily reported.“If you were still doing real work like me,” Hazard said, “you’d handle this no different than I’m handling it.”“Yeah. But I sure wouldn’t sit there grinning about it.”Indicating Ethan’s sweater, Hazard said, “Cotton—like Rodeo Drive cotton?”“Cotton like Macy’s on-sale cotton.”“How much you pay for a pair of socks these days?”Ethan said, “Ten thousand dollars.”He’d been hesitant to bring up the Rolf Reynerd situation. Now he figured he could do nothing better for Hazard than distract him from this suicidal mission to nail