Chapter 7It took the rest of the day for Joe and Crank to finish delivering for the pushers. The packages for the South Side didn't take long, since their drop-off places were both nearby, but the one for Hoover had to be carried farther away. Hoover was a borough of Brownstown, about five miles from the South Side, and Joe and Crank had to walk the whole way across town to get there.
As always, the day's work went off without any problems. There was no trouble, no run-ins or close calls with leery cops; the delivery spots were exactly as the pushers had described them, with no changes or surprises. At 120 Maxwell Street, Joe and Crank walked down an alley, knocked on a dirty side door, gave a bundle to a black man named Teddy, and got an envelope back. Beside the gate at Global Steel, th
