Chapters 5-6 Summary

Chapter 5 - Presumed Dead

Chappie and Russ managed to hang onto the apartment with Bruce's help. One night in April, Chappie comes home to find the living room filled with stolen electronics. The bikers have partnered with Black Bart to take new electronics off the loading dock of the Service Merchandise in the Plattsburgh mall and fence the stuff to a buyer in Albany. Bruce keeps Chappie and Russ from even touching a box. Russ points out that Chappie and him are already implicated and that, as they are assuming the same risk as the bikers, they should get a cut. Bruce threatens Russ with violence, but Chappie manages to pull Russ away. Russ thinks this is particularly unjust, as he has effectively joined the gang already, and been allowed to get an Adirondack Iron tattoo.

Russ forms a scheme whereby...