Chapter 53: Vale Tudo

The Leone clan was a tribe of mercenaries. They had “Ears,” middlemen who took on jobs from all over and assigned them to the strike teams who actually carried them out. For small jobs, the Ear would just pass the message along. But about once a month, the top twenty-ranked members were gathered together, and the clan leader himself would hand out the big jobs. In practice, the official business wrapped up in five minutes, and the rest turned into a drinking party. Everyone had been told to…