Hard Magic

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot further with a smile and a gun. A smile, a gun, and a Brute get you the key to the city. —Al “Scarface” Capone, Interview, 1930

When I get those types, the men who just need to control everything, to tell everybody else what to do, I stick it in and break it off. I’m fighting for freedom.

She had not liked the German at first, but she decided that that was just because he had shot her to death.

It was a rare man you could trust with either a Thompson or a general ledger.

Everybody thought they were in the right. The evilest bastards he had ever met had still thought of themselves as the good guys.