Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator in Thank God It's Spy Day: Lee Hacklyn, #1

By John Leister

New York City. 1975.

 

Lee joins forces with MI6 agent Percy Jarvis, to help him find his wife,

former KGB agent, Olga Aganov.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Leister
• Release date: Nov 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223444312

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NEW YORK CITY.  1975.

CHAPTER ONE

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The First Annual, I’m nothing if not an optimist, ha, ha, ha, ha, New York City Security and Private Investigations Convention.  I just flew in from Fargo, North Dakota and man!  Are my arms tired!  Ha, ha, ha, ha!  I’m your host for the day and if there are any single women present, you never know, maybe I’ll be your host tomorrow morning, too, ha, ha, ha!  Just kidding!  Sitting in the front row here today is my beautiful wife, Phyllis.  That’s short for syphilis.  Ha, ha, ha, ha!  I’m so outrageous!  Stand up, honey, and take a bow!  Never mind your shyness.  That’s all in your head.  Isn’t that what Dr. So-and-So told you?  Psychiatry is a great profession, right?  You pay some one an arm and a leg to tell you what you already know.  Come on, honey, stand up.  Stand up, for fuck sakes, you’re embarrassing me!  That’s better.  Now there’s a case worth cracking, right, fellas?  Ha, ha, ha, ha!  Get your minds out of the gutter, you sick bastards!  Hey!  You over there!  Do you work for the hotel?  You do?  Would you mind, if it’s not too much to ask, pretty please, with sugar on top, do something about the A/C?  I can almost see my breath!

What’s A/C, sir?

Air conditioning!  Speaka da English?  If I lived in your country, I’d made some effort to learn the language.  Ha, ha, ha, ha!  I’m pulling your leg, Gomez.  For the record, I’m a progressive liberal.  Whoa!  I forgot the most important part of this opening!  I’m Sheldon Sure Thing Thistle and thistle" blow