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Henkin is recruited because he has experience in stealing things. So he says. Obviously Frost is worried about the extra risk—supposing Henkin gets caught, suppose he flips—but there’s more risk in going it alone. A worse risk, meaning. The risk of failure. Frost doesn’t know what he’s doing and that more or less settles that.
They meet through a mutual friend. When Frost asks the friend for a reference, being vague on the details, the friend thinks about it for a minute and then writes down a phone number on the back of some receipt from his pocket.
“Trustworthy?” Frost asks.
“Seeing as I don’t know what you’re up to I can’t answer that,” the friend says.
Then Henkin and Frost have their first meeting in the plaza downtown as arranged, Henkin making Frost wait too long. It
