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him off short, “We won’t need them. At least not till we speak to the experts.” He paused expecting their reaction.
    “What experts?” Phil asked.
    “I am calling in experts who will help us get back in the game.”
    “Whaddya mean boss?” Ray asked. “You have a tie in with the Army, the Navy? Experts!!?”
    Good. The setup had worked. This was the moment Woody was waiting for. It was time to show them why he was the boss. This is where he could come in and share his wisdom with the rest of the team, in a language the idiots would understand.
    “Let me explain.” Woody sat on the edge of the table and looked intently at one of his goons. “Ray, what do you do when your tooth hurts real bad?
    “I use a spanner, and yank it out real hard. The big ones you get at Walmart for $19.99 work really well.”
    Woody shook his head in despair. Ray wasn’t exactly a top contender for Mensa membership. This was going to be more difficult than Woody had thought. He turned to Alfredo.
    “What do you do when one of your guys gets thrown into the slammer?” Woody looked at Alfredo optimistically.
    “I make sure we kill him before the cops have had a chance to interrogate him and get all our secrets out of him,” Alfredo responded coldly. There was no way his loyalty would permit the cops to use his own ammunition against him or his boss.
    Woody was close to losing his temper, but decided to give it one last shot. He addressed Jacob, “What do you do on pay day, when you get your hands on all that cash?”
    “No brainer, I blow up some of it on booze and stash away the rest in my backyard for a rainy day. I ain’t half as dumb as I appear to be, ya know. So, what’s with the expert story, boss?”
    Obviously this wasn’t going in the direction Woody had presumed. It all sounded so smooth the previous night, with Angie. Maybe it was the ambience. But Woody had no intentions of wearing sexy lingerie or getting in bed with his men, just to replicate the ambience from the previous night. He decided to move on to the main message.
    “Never mind. We’ll need to get in touch with the business doctors to see if they can come up with ideas to fix up this mess. Joe, here’s their contact information. Get them over for a discussion, pronto. And for heaven’s sakes, play it real quiet. I don’t want them knowing that they are getting hired by the underworld.”
    “Won’t they find out eventually?” Joe raised the least nonsensical point of the morning. He was Woody’s Man Friday. He wasn’t responsible for any specific business. But being the boss’s right hand man gave him an exposure to almost all businesses.
    “Yeah, I guess so. But let’s hook them in first. We don’t want them to leave the town before meeting us and never return. ”

 
    Chapter 3
    Michael Schneider was staring out at nothing in particular from the window of his corner office in Santa Monica. It provided a fantastic view of the hills, which would be snow-capped for a greater part of the winter season. On clear days, the ‘HOLLYWOOD’ sign would be visible, though the individual letters did not really stand out clearly due to the distance.
    Unfortunately, for Schneider, business itself hadn’t been as fantastic as the panoramic view. Sitting atop a plush thirty-storey tower, Schneider had chosen one of the higher floors. The swish interiors of the office, the great location and the impressive demeanor with which Schneider carried himself could cause any onlooker to be envious of his position. The interiors were done up in classy contemporary décor with pottery art pieces and authentic imitation paintings adorning the nooks and walls. There were open spaces and also a small recreation room to maintain the ‘fun’ factor. This was more of a ruse to project the image of a cool workplace and the room was the least inhabited place in the office. Despite all the apparent extravagance, Schneider was a worried man.
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