By James Carlos Blake
James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the child, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the loose kingdom of Galveston," who're prospering via illicit pleasures in the course of the good melancholy. Raised on an remoted West Texas ranch that he was once pressured to escape at age eighteen following the violent breakup of his foster kinfolk, Jimmy has came across a house and a occupation in Galveston -- and a mentor in Rose Maceo. Looming over Jimmy's tale like an historic curse is the threat of his fearsome father. Their ties of blood, glaring considering that Jimmy's boyhood, were drawn tighter over the years. Then a wierd and gorgeous lady enters his lifestyles and a speedy and terrifying series of occasions is decided in movement. Jimmy needs to move the border and move deep into the brutal and cruel nation of his ancestors -- the place the story's harrowing climax closes a circle of future decades within the making.
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There you go, Frankie,” he said. ” I’d seen the sheriff coming and going from Rose’s office many a time and we had sometimes exchanged nods. But I doubted he’d ever accepted money from Rose in front of anybody, and he looked uneasy about it. As the sheriff put the money in his coat, Rose pointed at me and 30 James Carlos Blake • • said, “You know Jimmy here, don’t you, Frank? Let me tell you, they don’t come any better than this kid. A real whiz at taking care of business, you know what I mean?
A picture window looked out on the gulf. The faint lights of shrimp trawlers moved slowly across the black horizon. I’d brought the briefcase with me, both pistols in it, so I wouldn’t have a gun digging into my belly while I ate. The grayhaired waiter brought a basket of breadsticks and poured glasses of Chianti. Rose waved off his suggestion of minestrone and salad and ordered clams in pesto over capellini for both of us. “Molto bene, Don Rosario,” the waiter said with a bow, and retreated to the kitchen.
I got a phone call,” he said. “One of the other two guys must’ve called Dallas as soon as you left the hotel room. Then Dallas called me, some guy named Healy— fucken mick. Says he represents the organization that owns the machines Ragsdale was pushing on this side of the line. Organization—like he’s talking about Standard Oil. Says he wanted me to know his organization had nothing to do with Ragsdale putting the slots in Galveston County, that it was strictly Ragsdale’s doing. Under the Skin 51 • • Says the organization only contracted the machines to him.