The winter of Frankie Machine

62

“We should go down there and check,” Carlo says.

They have the Envoy and the Lexus pulled off to the side of the road. They can’t see the car where it’s plunged into the little ravine, but they can see the flames shooting out of it.

“Check on what?” Jimmy the Kid asks. “You can grill hot dogs on him yet?”

The police and fire sirens have already started.

“What we should do,” Jimmy says, “is get the fuck out of here.”

And they do.