One-Shot
One-Shot
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Hence I was surprised to hear somebody on the docks remark that Braunwas in the city over the week end. It would never have occurred to methat he still interested himself in the waterfront, for he'd gonerespectable with a vengeance. He was still a professional gambler, andaccording to what he had told the Congressional Investigating Committeelast year, took in thirty to fifty thousand dollars a year at it, buthis gambles were no longer concentrated on horses, the numbers, or shadyinsurance deal...s. Nowadays what he did was called investment--mostly inreal estate; realtors knew him well as the man who had _almost_ boughtthe Empire State Building. (The _almost_ in the equation stands for themoment when the shoestring broke. ) Joan had been following his career, too, not because she had ever methim, but because for her he was a type study in the evolution of whatshe called "the extra-legal ego. " "With personalities like that, respectability is a disease, " she told me. "There's always analmost-open conflict between the desire to be powerful and the desire tobe accepted; your ordinary criminal is a moral imbecile, but people likeBraun are damned with a conscience, and sooner or later they cracktrying to appease it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Hence I was surprised to hear somebody on the docks remark that Braunwas in the city over the week end. It would never have occurred to methat he still interested himself in the waterfront, for he'd gonerespectable with a vengeance. He was still a professional gambler, andaccording to what he had told the Congressional Investigating Committeelast year, took in thirty to fifty thousand dollars a year at it, buthis gambles were no longer concentrated on horses, the numbers, or shadyinsurance deal...s. Nowadays what he did was called investment--mostly inreal estate; realtors knew him well as the man who had _almost_ boughtthe Empire State Building. (The _almost_ in the equation stands for themoment when the shoestring broke. ) Joan had been following his career, too, not because she had ever methim, but because for her he was a type study in the evolution of whatshe called "the extra-legal ego. " "With personalities like that, respectability is a disease, " she told me. "There's always analmost-open conflict between the desire to be powerful and the desire tobe accepted; your ordinary criminal is a moral imbecile, but people likeBraun are damned with a conscience, and sooner or later they cracktrying to appease it.
What to read after One-Shot?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Blish James Benjamin to read onlineMoreLess
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