Hardy had just put down his wine glass when Ava Gardner came in from another room. She had just gone out to answer a phone call. The call was very long, lasting a full twenty minutes.

Ava came to Hardy, knelt on the carpet next to Hardy, rested her head on Hardy's thigh, looked up at the man, with a hint of sadness in her eyes.

"What's wrong Ava?"

Hardy was a little puzzled. He was fine just now. He reached out and stroked the woman's soft long hair like stroking a well-behaved cat.

"Hadi, I feel very lucky," said Ava.

"Why do you say that suddenly?" Hardy was a little surprised. What happened to Ava? Did she just receive that call?

"It's Lana Turner. She just called me crying and told me that she was being harassed by a scumbag and was beaten up by him."

Hardy frowned slightly.

Hardy knew Lana Turner, a contracted actress of MGM. She was beautiful, with soft and shiny brown hair, jade-like skin, a round and beautiful face, and a curvy figure, not inferior to Ava at all.

Hardy took Ava to an MGM cocktail party, where the two women met. They were of similar age and had a great time talking to each other. Later, they gradually became close friends and would go shopping and have tea together whenever they had time.

"At first, the man said he was the owner of a tobacco factory and was full of sweet words to Turner. But later, Turner found out that the man not only deceived her, but also had a shady background. It was said that he used to be a bodyguard of a gangster boss. Turner wanted to break up with him, but was beaten by the man. He even threatened to destroy her if she dared to break up. She is now very sad, painful and scared."

Ava looked at Hardy and said, "Can you help her, Hardy? She needs help now, but no one is helping her."

"What's that man's name?" Hardy asked with a frown.

"Johnny."

The gang boss's bodyguard Johnny?

Hardy didn't know about this person.

Hadi touched Ava's face and said, "Don't worry, I will help her."

Ava immediately smiled and rubbed her face on Hardy's thighs like a coquettish cat.

Hardy picked up the phone and called Bill.

"Bill, do you know a guy named Johnny who is said to be a subordinate of a gangster boss?"

"Johnny? I don't know. Let me ask now."

About 5 minutes later, the phone rang. At this moment, Hardy was lying on Ava's lap, and Ava was cleaning the man's ears.

Bill picked up the phone and put it to Hardy's ear, and told Hardy that Johnny used to be a member of the Seldon family in San Francisco. He left the gang last year and wandered around Hollywood. Relying on his previous connections and eloquence, he deceived a rich woman in Hollywood into supporting him.

It turned out to be a gigolo who had been involved with gangs.

"He should know a lot about the Selden family. Find a good place to ask him in detail. It may be helpful for our future actions." Hardy said.

"Understood, Boss."

Hang up the phone.

"What's wrong?" Ava asked Hardy.

"Haha, tell your friend not to worry, Johnny will never bother her again in the future." Hardy said.

Ava happily bent her head and kissed the man.

She felt so happy to be with such a man, and whispered in his ear: "Hadi, shall we go swimming?"

The manor swimming pool has a heating function, which can maintain the most comfortable temperature all year round. The two of them swam happily in the swimming pool, creating ripples in the water.

......

The next day.

Ava went to visit Lana Turner. The woman had an obvious bruise on the corner of her eye, abrasions on her arms, and bruises on her body. It was obvious that the man beat her very badly and didn't care at all that the woman was a Hollywood star.

Lana Turner saw Ava crying and hugged her.

"Ava, help me, that Johnny is a jerk, I want to get rid of him, but he threatened to kill me."

Ava stroked Lana Turner's hair, "I've already talked to Hardy, and Hardy said he would help you deal with this matter."

"Mr. Hardy agrees to help me?"

"Yes, so don't worry."

The woman lay on Ava's chest and cried.

From that day on, Lana Turner never saw Johnny again. About a week later, she saw a news report in the newspaper that Johnny had died in a car accident. It was said that Johnny was hit by a speeding car while crossing the road after coming out of the bar.

When the police arrived, the driver pleaded guilty. It was dark at the time and the man suddenly crossed the road, so he didn't have time to brake and was hit.

There were several witnesses nearby who confirmed that what the driver said was true.

The driver was not drunk and was not speeding. The pedestrian was responsible for crossing the road. In the end, the driver was judged to be 70% responsible and was ordered to pay $6,822.36 in compensation.

The driver's car was insured, so I didn't have to pay so much. In the end, the driver only had to pay over a thousand dollars.

When Lana Turner saw the news, she immediately thought of Mr. Hardy, but she quickly shook off the thought and said through gritted teeth: "That bastard should die. This is God's punishment for him."

But the woman felt grateful to Hardy.

......

Bill comes to see Hardy.

"Boss, Johnny told us everything he knew. We got a lot of confidential information from the Selden family. We are more confident in dealing with them this time." Bill said with a smile.

Hardy nodded. "It looks like the time is right. We can start the action. I'll have Henry secretly send a letter to the FBI."

Two days later.

The San Francisco FBI branch received an anonymous letter. The staff opened the letter as usual and were shocked after reading the content.

I didn't dare to delay and immediately sent it to the FBI director in San Francisco.

After reading it, the director immediately called the FBI headquarters to report the situation, "We received an anonymous letter saying that the Selton family patriarch, Leib Selton, who we are looking for, is hiding in a secret estate in Florence."

"Didn't the previous intelligence say that he had been hiding in Colombia? Why did he go to Italy again?" asked the supervisor.

"The report said that he went to Italy because he couldn't get used to the food in Colombia. Florence is Leib Seldon's hometown. The address given in the anonymous letter was very detailed, saying that the manor was a property he bought secretly." said the director of the San Francisco branch.

The supervisor thought for a moment and said, "Then let's notify the Italian authorities and ask the local police to help us arrest the man."

"Ah, if you let the local police arrest people, nine out of ten people will disappear."

"Do you still want to go to Italy to arrest people? Don't worry about it, just follow the process." said the supervisor.

The FBI informed the Italian side of the situation. After two days of delay, the Italian police conducted a surprise search of the manor provided by the intelligence. They found that apart from some servants, there was no sign of Leib Selden at the manor.

By this time Leib Selden had already run away.

Leib Selden received a notification from an insider and left the manor with all his men that afternoon. He boarded a friend's private plane and flew to the Bahamas, where he stayed in a small villa by the sea.

The scenery here is very good. There is only one villa around, and there is a bay in the distance. If you are bored, you can go swimming or fishing in the sea.

But now Selden was in no mood to swim or fish. He slammed the table and roared angrily.

"Who leaked my information? We must find out!"

The final information obtained from the investigation was that someone mailed an anonymous letter to the FBI branch in San Francisco, but no one knew who sent the letter.

But the next day.

When Yuka, a small leader of the Leib Selton family, was out, a passing car suddenly extended a machine gun and fired a burst of shots at the small leader, shooting him to death on the street.

This is a very strange thing. The little boss hasn't offended anyone recently, so why would someone kill him?

Leib Selden received the news while he was far away in the Bahamas. He felt something was wrong and immediately sent his most trusted men to investigate the matter. They found a box in the home of the mistress of the small boss.

The mistress said that this was left by the man when he was alive and she had never touched it.

The box contained $25,000 in cash, the deed to the lover's house, some letters and a notebook, and at the end of the notebook there was a sentence:

"Trotto asked me to deliver a letter to the FBI. If this is successful, he promised me to be the team leader."

Trotto's full name is John Trotto. He is the second in command of the Selden family. After Leib Selden was wanted and escaped, the gang business is now completely managed by Trotto.

When Henry and Hardy were reporting, Hardy smiled and said, "This guy still has the habit of writing a diary. Who would write a diary if they are serious?"

This news soon reached the ears of Leib Selden, who overturned the table in anger. He had not expected that the second-in-command would betray him and sell him out to the FBI, preparing to use a knife to kill him and swallow up the entire gang.

"Troto, Troto! I'm going to kill you."

Two days later, someone in the local office openly shot at Trotto. It was not known whether it was because of nervousness or poor shooting skills, but he fired three shots but only hit him once, in the shoulder, which was not fatal.

The gunman was then pinned down by the second-in-command's bodyguard.

Everyone was surprised why someone from their own gang would kill the second leader. Trotto held a gun to the guy's head and said, "Tell me, who asked you to kill me!"

The gunman was also scared, but he felt he still had a chance to survive because the boss had asked him to do this.

He shouted at Trotto: "The boss asked me to kill you because he already knew that you wanted to kill the boss. You secretly sent a letter to the FBI in order to let the police catch him so that you can become the boss legitimately."

The second in command, Trotto, was very surprised. "Who told you that I sent an anonymous letter to the FBI? Don't talk nonsense."

"Yuka said so."

"Yuka was killed. That's what he said." The second in command roared.

"It's because you were afraid that the truth would be exposed that you sent someone to kill him," the gunman shouted.

Damn.

The explanation is unclear.

Many people in the gang looked at the second-in-command with changed eyes. Although the second-in-command Trotto was in charge now, most of the people here were Selden's men.

Things are getting increasingly confusing here.

Trotto gritted his teeth. He knew he couldn't kill the gunman now, so he ordered his men to lock him up first. Then he looked at the others and said, "Something must have gone wrong with this matter. The anonymous letter was definitely not written by me. I will make it clear to Leib. Now you all go back to your own territory. No one can move without my order."

After Trotto finished speaking, he was sent to the hospital. In the hospital, a group of his cronies conspired with him. Now he was identified as an informer and there was no way to clear himself. There were only two ways, one was to escape and the other was to take action directly.

That night,

A fierce gunfight broke out among the Seldon family in San Francisco.

One side took the initiative to attack, while the other side was well prepared. The numbers of people on both sides were almost equal, and many people died in a short period of time.

After receiving the alarm, the San Francisco police sent out more than a dozen police cars and brought heavy weapons to block the area around the battlefield. They didn't care how many people died inside, so they just let them finish fighting first.

This is also the consistent method used by the US police to deal with gang fights.

Neither side is a good guy, no one cares whether one is dead or alive, it would be dangerous to rush in and get caught between the two gangs, so just surround them and let them fight, and it will be easy to deal with them after they are exhausted.

......

The phone in the room rang.

Hardy got up and went to the study to answer the phone.

It was Henry calling.

"Boss, I originally thought they would remain deadlocked for a while, but once something happened, both sides immediately started fighting. Now two groups of people are gathered in one neighborhood and fighting fiercely. The scene is like a war."

Hardy thought that there must have been resentment between the two sides for a long time, and they didn't trust each other before. Now that there was a little sign of trouble, they were afraid that the other side would strike first, so they chose to fight directly.

"Tell Bill he can move now."

"Okay, boss."

After hanging up the phone, Hardy returned to the room. Isa was lying on the bed, her curves like waves. Hardy lifted the quilt, hugged her from behind, and slowly squeezed in.

sleep.

......