Tip of The Iceberg

Kool Kat, Owen Todd ,Sean Jackson and Clerow were in my basement cleaning and checking our guns....

"You sure this information is good Kev?" asked Kool Kat...

"I'm never sure of anything, but it's all I got." I said.

"You trust Marco Gervay? He'd sell his mother out for the right price?" said Owen Todd, Sean Jackson laughed while he adjusted his cameras...

"His information has been good in the past....So I'm gonna trust him now." I said.

Clerow ,Owen Todd and I had rousted several playas at the Mermaid Club, Ciros and Josies... A lot of them were so afraid of Deuce Watkins and Tony Anthony that they refused to talk to me...but Marco Gervay was willing to talk...In private.

He met me in West Philly at one of the gyms that Chris and Chess owned and talked in length to me.

He told me that "Lucky" was a playa named "Big Lucky" , real name- Charles Tampon. A contract killer and a one time loan shark. He said that "Big Lucky" ran with a big lesbian woman named "Doll", real name, Donna Biggs...She was good with a gun.... Used to be a bouncer at one of Big Chicken's whore houses.They were both high priced muscle who worked for the highest bidder....

Clerow,Owen and I located the house.... All we knew was that there was three of them in the house...."Big Lucky", "Doll" and a tall slender guy name James Jeffers..a low level playa from Southwest Philly.... He had dealt drugs at one time and was good with a gun. At no time was there less than one of them in the house....There was no sign of Ruby Fowler....but then....we had no way in...

Marco told us and we observed that a truck carrying food from a high end caterer named Jolies delivered food three times a day and that flowers from a florist called
"Delights" also delivered several times a day..... This guy Cal Townsend was a real clown...THIS was supposed to impress this woman???...

Neither Cal Townsend or Deuce Watkins called or was seen near the house...but one night we did catch Tony Anthony visiting the house....I was certain that Ruby Fowler was being held here and I had hatched a plan to rescue her...

II-

With help from some friends...I had borrowed a mobile catering truck and had used a fake "Jolie's" logo... I had had Chef Ralph Scallion prepare an excellent meal on the truck with his daughter ....and the con man, Pakistani Sam was disguised as the caterer's "assistant"

Hidden in the truck was Clerow, Kool Kat, myself and Owen Todd in cook's uniforms...  while parked a few blocks away was Peeping Tom, Sean Jackson and Lockpick Johnson..!

The plan was simple...Pakistani Sam, Ralph Scallion and his daughter rang the doorbell...

Doll came to the door....She was six feet tall, with arms that matched Kool Kat's....She was wearing a shoulder holster and was armed with a .44 Magnum....

"What'cha want?" she snapped.

"We are here with the food." he said...

"I wasn't told about no food....We get a call, yall got the wrong address" she snapped.

"No...This is the address.." he said.

While they talked on the porch....Sean Jackson used his high powered telephoto lense to get a look inside the second floor window.....There was Ruby Fowler!!! Not tied up, but in a room with the tall slender guy...James Jeffers...

"Kev...I got that eyeball...Our girl is in there...There's one guy upstairs.!!!" he said.

"Okay...That means there is two downstairs.....Doll, who is occupied at the front and Big Lucky, who's probally in the living room....Okay boys...Let's go." I said...

Lockpick Johnson and Peeping Tom worked on the backdoor....Once opened....Kool Kat and Owen Todd slipped inside....

Clerow and I slipped around the side...

"Dayummmmm that food look good...Bring it in...That skinny wench don't need it...She done ate already....I'll eat it." she said....

"Maybe some other time Doll." I said....

"What?, What the hell is this?" she said...

Clerow and I had our guns on her, I took her side arm and we tied her up and gagged her and left her on the front steps....

We slipped inside....Big Lucky was in his shirt and his boxer shorts...he had a shoulder holster on and a big gun in that holster....

"What the hell is this? Who are you guys?" he yelled....Ralph Scallion,His Daughter and Pakastani Sam ran out the door, but Clerow and I came in with our pistols cocked and ready!!

Big Lucky leaped off the couch and fired a shot at us...

Clerow and I ducked....Then we returned his fire...He got hit in the arm and in the side...He tossed his gun up in the air and fell to the ground.....

"ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH....I don't believe it...I've been shottt!" he moaned as he fell to the floor....wounded, but still alive... Clerow kicked his gun far away so he couldn't reach for it...

I looked at him and smiled...

"You're Big Lucky?" I asked.

"Yeah" he moaned...

"Not your day today huh?" I said.

"Hey, what can I say?" he moaned.

James Jeffers grabbed his pistol and ran down the steps only to stare at the big .44 magnum and glock of Kool Kat and Owen Todd!

"Ohhhhh helllllll!!!" he said...

"That's right...Ohhhh hell..I'm in deep doo doo." said Kool Kat.

Owen Todd looked at him....

"Dooo Dooo man? Really?" he said.

Kool Kat shrugged-"I told Chelsea I was gonna stop cussin, what can I say?"

Owen just shook his head and smiled as they unarmed Jeffers and tied him up.

Ruby came to the head of the steps...

"It's okay Ruby....I work for Stephen Bristol....I'm a private detective...He hired me to find you.." I said.

"Oh Thank God....they've had me here for two weeks." she said.

III-

Detective Carlotta Rodriguez, Lt. Sissy Van Buren, Detective Tyriq Pile and ADA Keith Wallace and several uniformed policemen  arrived  at the house.... They took a statement from Ruby Fowler....

In custody was Charles "Big Lucky" Tampon....wounded, but still alive, James Jeffers and Donna "Doll" Biggs...All charged with unlawful imprisonment......Ruby told the police that she had been abducted by Deuce Watkins and Anthony "Tony Tony" Anthony...

"I have a witness who will testify that those two shot and killed "He Man"Jefferson and his driver....Detective Pile....put an APB out for both of them for murder and kidnapping."she said.

"I'm on it Lou" he said.

"Kevin....I don't know how you do it.....but you always get the job done...We got our two murder suspects and you solved a kidnapping that we didn't even know had occurred." said ADA Keith Wallace...

"Yeah and there is more to come." I said and winked as me and my guys quietly left the scene.

IV-

I sat in a coffee shop alone later that night with Eddie "Spaghetti" Collins, my contact...

"Good Work Kevin....Mr. Bristol will be pleased to know that Ms. Fowler has been found safe and sound and that the people responsible are in custody.I am pleased....Supremely pleased" he said.

"Some of the people responsible are in custody.....There is still the matter of Deuce Watkins and Tony Anthony." I said.

"The police will pick those two jokers up soon." he said as we drank coffee..

"What about the man who made the whole thing happen?" I said.

He laughed....

"You mean Cal?   They'll never rat him out...Trust me....The man has a long reach..." he said. "Those guys are too scared of him to ever repeat his name..." said Eddie.

"Really?" I said.

"Yeah....Guys like him don't go to jail.....Hopefully this whole affair will have taught him a good lesson." said Eddie.

"You think he'll stop there? You think he'll just take it?" I said.

"What more can he do? But who cares...I'm just glad that Ruby is alright...I mean Ms. Fowler." said Eddie.

"Yeah, maybe you're right." I said....I suddenly didn't want to give up too much information....Stephen Bristol had taught me that....A good card player didn't show too much....

I was going to wrap this all up.....I was going to play my last hand.

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