Gunrunners

A gun smuggler and supplier.

“It held some newspaper clippings, the oldest dated ten years back, the youngest eight months. I read them through, passing each one to the swarthy man as I finished it. Tom-Tom Carey was written down in them as soldier of fortune, gunrunner, seal poacher, smuggler, and pirate. But it was all alleged, supposed and suspected. He had been captured variously but never convicted of anything. ‘They don’t treat me right,’ he complained placidly when we were through reading.”

Dashiell Hammett, $106,000 Blood Money (1924).