Nunzio and me first met the Boss about five books back [Hit or Myth (Myth Adventures #4)] when we was assigned to tag along with one of the Mob’s mouthpieces whilst he was looking for the same Big Julie we was conversin’ with in the first chapter. To be more precise, he was lookin’ for the army which Big Julie was supposed to have been leadin’ in a little fund raisin’ venture for our organization, and which, accordin’ to reports, had disappeared into thin air after encounterin’ a bit of resistance led by the Boss. Of course, in those days we didn’t call him the Boss as we weren’t workin’ for him at the time. All we knew was that there was some bad news-type sorcerer named Skeeve the Great givin’ the Mob grief and we was supposed to keep him off Shyster’s back whilst the investigation progressed.
In the interest of brevity not to mention the preservin’ of our royalty income from the backlist of this series, I will refrain from narratin’ all the intriguin’ details of that assignment. What is crucial that you understand, however, is that at the conclusion of that first encounter, a deal was struck between the Great Skeeve and Don Bruce, the Mob’s Fairy Godfather. By the terms of that agreement, Don Bruce and the Mob was to lay off the Kingdom of Possiltum in general and Big Julie and his boys specifically, in exchange for the Great Skeeve givin’ the Mob access to another dimension … to wit, Deva, complete with its rather famous bazaar.
Shortly thereafter, Don Bruce hired the Great Skeeve to oversee the Mob’s interests on Deva, and assigned Nunzio and me to him as bodyguards … which is when we started callin’ him Boss.