Mitty was all right. You just had to know how to handle him, what to do with him. Mitty was like a piece of machinery, like the big car that right now he was stealing, or like a sub-machine gun—dangerous, powerful, and with no vestige of intelligence. It was necessary only to make sure he had the proper direction. Like a gun, Mitty was as safe or as dangerous as the person who used him.

Harry Cribbins reflects coolly on the men in his crew while waiting for the armored-car job to begin.

— Hostage for a Hood (Lionel White, 1957)


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