![]() ![]() After multiple failures Bunch hires a hitman, or rather hitwoman, named Haroldeen (misidentified frequently as Harold Dean), who winds up shooting, but not killing, Sportcoat and Deems. Bunch Moon and his partner Earl try to retaliate against Sportcoat for the shooting, but are repeatedly thwarted, and Earl defects and becomes a police informant. ![]() The shooting causes, or rather reveals, fractures among the network of criminals, smugglers, and drug dealers that Deems works with and for. When Hettie died, she left many of her responsibilities behind for Sportcoat, including the care of their blind son Pudgy Fingers, and a box of money for the Church’s Christmas Club, which Sportcoat cannot find, much to the Church’s frustration. His memory issues are further punctuated by the fact that he frequently sees, communes, and argues with the spirit of his dead wife Hettie. Sportcoat is an alcoholic with memory issues, frequently mixing up past and present, and for the rest of the novel cannot recall the shooting. ![]() Deems is not killed, thanks to the intervention of an undercover police officer named Jet, but he is injured. Cuffy “Sportcoat” Lambkin, a deacon at the Five Ends Baptist Church, shoots 19-year-old drug dealer Deems Clemens at the flagpole, Deems’s usual selling spot. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: McBride, James. ![]()
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