• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    [off topic]

    I am a fan of the Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald. Introduced to them in childhood and still worth a re-read.

    Travis was a ‘salvage consultant’ who would rob loot back from criminals, and then retire for as long as the money lasted.

    • exasperation@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      What’s funny is I just typed a comment trying to analyze what types of jobs would allow for this, and one category was the “discrete projects that have a defined beginning and end” type jobs, and it did cross my mind that movie-style heists tend to have this kind of arrangement.