The drug dealers behind Deems and Deems want Sportcoat. However, when a friend of the Elephant’s father pays the Elephant a visit and asks a favor, worlds collide. The Elephant and Sportcoat have not crossed paths. He strikes fear into the heart of almost everyone, but is an extremely complex character. Their son, 45 year old Thomas Elefante, nicknamed the Elephant, has carried on the business. Her deceased husband, Guido Elefante was a smuggler. Sportcoat does some work for an 89 year old Italian widow named Mrs. He spends a lot of time at the Church and in the community, where he gets to know sister Gee. An honest police officer by the name of Potts, just a couple of months from retirement, is assigned to the case. The shooting of Deems Clemens sets off a series of unique events, bringing a wide array of characters together in very unlikely ways. No one knows where it comes from or who is responsible, but it shows up every year. Almost everyone in the novel is obsessed with finding Sportcoat.Įvery year the projects receive a large delivery of gourmet cheese and the residents stand in line to get a share of the cheese. Sportcoat is obsessed with finding the money. When Hettie died, no one knew where she kept the money. Sportcoat belongs to the Five Ends Baptist Church and Hettie had been the Treasurer and responsible for keeping the Christmas Club money. His wife, Hettie, had recently died and he spends most of his time talking to Hettie, drinking homemade liquor affectionately referred to as King Kong and doing odd jobs. Sportcoat is 71 years old and well known in the Projects. 45 Luger in the face of a nineteen-year-old drug dealer named Deems Clemens, and pulled the trigger.”
That’s the days the old deacon, known as Sportcoat to his friends, marched out to the plaza of the Causeway Housing Projects in South Brooklyn, stuck an ancient.
“Deacon Cuffy Lambkin of Five Ends Baptist Church became a walking dead man on a cloudy September afternoon in 1969.
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