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Synopsis
In debt to the mob, the narrator is forced to dig up the body of his old friend, Harry the Flat, from where it is buried under the Aqueduct racetrack
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From the Inside Flap
Harry the Flat is dead and buried in the backstretch of Aqueduct Raceway. This is causing the Mob no end of trouble on the betting side, so Harry's oldest and dearest friend—now carrying on with Harry's widow, Gertrude nee Hawkins, in Harry's absence, and in debt to the Mob for $1500—is persuaded to dig him up after the eighth race. Tony Winner, low level Mob boss, is very specific on this point, and to that end has had a time bomb surgically implanted in our hero's thigh to impress upon him the urgency of this matter.So on this fateful day, off he goes to the Aqueduct in Queens, New York, with a cello case stuffed with a pick and a shovel, prepared to dig up the dubious remains of Harry the Flat so that the Mob's control of horserace betting is no longer compromised. His mind is filled with thoughts of Harry, of Gertrude, of his ex-wife, and all the schemes and plans and bets that led to this moment. It will be a long day for our hero. He has a lot to learn about horse racing.
About the Author
Barry Nathaniel Malzberg was born July 24, 1939, attended Syracuse University from 1956 to 1960, where he was awarded a Shubert Foundation Playwriting fellowship. In 1964 he married Joyce Zelnick. The next year he began working for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, publishing his first story (“The Bed” as by “Nathan Herbert”) in March, 1966, and his first sf story (“We’re Coming Through the Window”) the following August. Since then, he has published crime fiction, erotica, film and TV tie-ins, men’s adventure, satire, science fiction and approximately 1000 stories and essays under his own name and variety of pseudonyms, as well as collaborating with other authors and editing numerous anthologies. His sf novel Beyond Apollo was awarded the John W Campbell Memorial Award. He lives with his wife in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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