Ready, if you don't tell me what I want to know, you'd better get yourself one of those prayers. Because I'm going to take you over to 129th Street near the Harlem River. You know where that is? It's a deserted jungle of warehouses and junk yards beneath the New York Central bridge. "Yare, I know where it's at." "And I'm going to pistol whip you until your own whore won't recognize you again. And if you try to run, I'm going to let you run fifty feet and then shoot you through the head for attempting to escape. You understand me?" "Yare, I understand you." "You believe me?"

Grave Digger threatens to take a pimp to a deserted stretch beneath the New York Central bridge and pistol-whip him, then shoot him if he runs.

— Grave Digger Jones in Harlem Cycle #2 - The Real Cool Killers (Chester Himes, 1959)


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