The Enchanters by James Ellroy EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: James Ellroy
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(LOS ANGELES, 8:23 P.M., SATURDAY, 8/4/62)
The drop ran eighty feet. The cliff was loose dirt and no footholds. We
hauled shitbird up to the edge and showed him the view.
The Pasadena Freeway, southbound. Due north of the Chavez Ravine
exit and downtown L.A. Steady traffic clocking through at 65-plus.
Shitbird was Richard Douglas Danforth/white male
American/approximate age 36. No green sheet, no wants, no warrants. He’s
a bleak cat with a pachuco haircut and Sir Guy shirt.
I held his right arm. Max Herman held his left arm. Red Stromwall
jammed his head down and force-fed him the view.
Freddy O. and the Hat Squad. We’re at it again. Bill Parker says,
“Jump.” We say, “How high?” It’s a kidnap job tonight.
Harry Crowder and Eddie Benson watchdogged Suspect #2. They stood
him up by their prowl sled. They fed him the threats, the car noise, the view.
He’s Morris Hershel “Buzzy” Stein/WMA/age 42. His perv sheet dates
back to 1938. He’s a stat rape-o and psycho snout diver. Danforth and Stein
were bought and paid for. Kidnap was a gas-chamber bounce.
This gig was strictly rogue and ad lib. Here’s the gist:
A B-film actress named Gwen Perloff got strongarm snatched. It was
late a.m., today. She lived in a cheese-luxe building up from the Strip.
Three men grabbed her on the sidewalk. They wore Fidel Castro masks.
Multiple eyewits saw them. They shoved her into a double-parked vehicle
and jammed south. Said vehicle might have been a ’58 Dodge or a ’56
Chevy Nomad. Miss Perloff plays second leads in horror and dance-craze
flicks. She’s a 20th Century–Fox contract slave. The Strip is county turf.
The L.A. Sheriff’s caught the squawk, but—
Fox kingpin Darryl Zanuck got tipped off. Some unknown woman
called him. She finked Danforth and Stein and spilled one of their two girlstash locations. Zanuck called his tight pal, Bill Parker. Chief Bill
bootjacked the kidnap job. He dispatched Freddy and the Hats to a house
off 6th and Dunsmuir. We grabbed Danforth and Stein. Perloff was stashed
elsewhere. Danforth and Stein refused to divulge the spot. Stein said there
were three more snatch men still out there. They pulled the job, not him and
Richie. Stein zipped it then. Harry and Eddie whomped him with sap
gloves. Stein still kept it zipped. Ditto Danforth. That mandated the Death
Threat and Freeway Drop Show.
I held Danforth’s right arm. Max held his left arm. Red jammed his head
down and force-fed him look-sees.
Max went Where’s the girl? Red went Give it up or you fly. Harry,
Eddie, and Pervdog Stein stood ten feet back from the drop.
It was August-in-L.A. hot and humid. Max and Red sweated through
their shirts and suit coats. Danforth wriggled and squirmed.
He dug his feet
in and thrashed. Dirt clods skittered off the cliff. The fucking drop loomed.
I scoped Max and Red. They looked impatient. I clamped Danforth’s
arm. He buckled against me. My hand went numb. My legs fluttered. Max
and Red ran six-four and 240. Their legs fluttered.
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