Jimmy the Kid

Westlake, Donald E.

The customer was big and muscular, but intellectually out of his depth.


“And they got the roads right,” Murch said. “I mean, the guy that wrote the book, he got all the roads right.”


“Does that happen a lot?” “Not so much,” Rollo said. “We mostly got beer drinkers in here. Beer drinkers got a low center of gravity, they don’t like to fight much. They just like to sit there, mind their own business.” “I like a nice beer myself,” May said. “I seen you were a good person when you walked in,”


Workmen like to talk about their rich clients, it’s one of their fringe benefits.”