Stanga

“I want you to come down to the department and watch about forty seconds of video, Mr. Stanga,” Helen said.

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Right, the guy who was trying to dime Herman Stanga.

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“Then how did you acquire it, Mr. Stanga?” she asked.

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Stanga shook his head in exasperation, the pixielike quality gone from his face, his expression almost genuine, devoid of guile or theatrics.

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Clete had never seen Herman Stanga but had heard him described and had no difficulty singling him out.

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But the fact he considered Herman Stanga a cancer indicated, at least to me, that Elmore was still held together by the same glue as the rest of us.

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But why would you be talking with a man like Stanga to begin with?

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Herman Stanga was a man I hated, maybe less for what he was personally than what he represented, but I hated him just the same, to the degree that I did not want to be armed and alone with him.

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Stanga was sitting with a woman in the shadows, at a table under a live oak that was not wrapped with lights.

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Any one of a half-dozen skells could have creeped my place, somebody working for the guy who popped Stanga.

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