Just started this fun story; the author seems to be trying quite hard not to say the protagonist is a mobster, or at least mob-acquainted
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool
From 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.
