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The Risk Profession, by Donald Edwin Westlake
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Title: The Risk Profession
Author: Donald Edwin Westlake
Illustrator: Ivie
Release Date: October 29, 2008 [EBook #27089]
Language: English
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The men who did dangerous work had a special kind of insurance policy. But when somebody wanted to collect on that policy, the claims investigator suddenly became a member of ...
The RISK PROFESSION
By DONALD E. WESTLAKE
Mister Henderson called me into his office my third day back in Tangiers. That was a day and a half later than I'd expected. Roving claims investigators for Tangiers Mutual Insurance Corporation don't usually get to spend more than thirty-six consecutive hours at home base.
Henderson was jovial but stern. That meant he was happy with the job I'd just completed, and that he was pretty sure I'd find some crooked shenanigans on this next assignment. That didn't please me. I'm basically a plain-living type, and I hate complications. I almost wished for a second there that I was back on Fire and Theft in Greater New York. But I knew bette