Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Remember too that THE TOMB was the =first= Jack novel. Most fictioneers will tell you the first book of a series is the toughest to write because you don't know all about your character yet. (And Paul hadn't planned a series.)
I wonder what Jack would do if, oh, Mayor Mike Bloomberg of NYC needed a fix!:eek::dontknow::ooh:
If Mikey found out somebody like Jack existed, there's be a little (oops, we got the wrong apartment) incident. Hundreds of shots fired (several uninvolved bystanders in adjacent apartments wounded/killed) maybe two cops wounded, one fatally, whether or not the target actually reached a gun (the NYPD eats its young, with relish and sometimes some mustard and kraut). The gun can always be planted later, anyway. Bloomy is commander-in-chief of the NYPD and doesn't tolerate competition.
If the mayor walked into Julio's without (possibly even with) a SWAT team, I doubt he'd walk out alive even if Jack wasn't there and Julio was down in the basement getting a fresh keg. It still amazes me that that the bastard's still alive after he got all of that crap passed forbidding smoking in bars (we're here in the bar to only do healthy things, after all). I don't live there, it's not my job, there has to be somebody in NYC with some balls. Doing my best to get my recently-widowed first wife out of there, the Five Boroughs are an unhealthy environment. Jersey is almost as bad (yeah, even worse in some ways), but there are plans to go elsewhere.