Curse of the Jade Lily (Mac McKenzie #9)

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"there must be someone. how about a fence?"

"you gots t' know, this kinda thing don' have a lot of buyers. steal a big-screen tv, people fall all over themselves t' buy it. a paintin', work of art, somethin' famous, somethin' valuable cuz it's famous, that only appeals to what you call a select clientele, high rollers happy t' pay big bucks for somethin' they can't ever show off, you know? what you need is somebody who tied into that, knows the people who knows the people here in the cities and elsewhere, am i right?"

"there has to be somebody i can talk to."

"man, i don' know. let me think ... only one comes t' mind is cid."

"sid who?"

"no, no. cid, like in el cid."

"the lord?"

"what?"

"el cid, it means the lord. it was the title given to rodrigo d