THE WRITTEN RECORD: Vinnie’s Head
THE WRITTEN RECORD: An Excerpt from Vinnie’s Head.
“So tell me this.” I was desperate by now. “Are you going to do it yourself?”
He finally looked over at me. “‘Do it’? Do what?” Then he broke into a grin, a big one this time, showing teeth.
“You think I”m going to shoot you. Relax. While I admit there’d be a certain enjoyment in the act, I am not going to shoot you.”
“Is anybody going to shoot me?”
He shrugged. “It’s possible. It’s amazing to me, personally, that nobody shot you a long time ago.”
I brooded on this. It was something I’d wondered about myself.
(Johnnie LoDuco, hapless Long Island lowlife, in conversation with one of a succession of captors in Vinnie’s Head, Marc Lecard, St. Martin’s Minotaur, March 2007, $23.95)