The winter of Frankie Machine

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The fishermen were trying to bag a four-hundred-pound marlin, but they hooked a four-hundred-pound bouncer instead.

Grisly catch.

Dave Hansen gets the call that morning and goes down to the docks to meet the boat. He isn’t very worried about the forensics getting screwed up on a body that’s been in the water for two days.

Still and all, it isn’t hard to ID Tony Palumbo.

A few hours later, Dave gets confirmation that Palumbo was shot with the same gun that killed Vince Vena.

Hypothesis: Vena had come out from Detroit to get rid of Tony Palumbo, and someone had killed them both.

So someone was trying to clean up G-Sting from the top down. And to do it, they contracted with the most efficient hit man in California.

Dave puts a warrant out for Frank Machianno.