Bagman, Bouncer...

Murder Bound, viii.

Walling has worked for Hugo Heiss as:

bagman
bouncer (I know what a bouncer is)
shill
badger game
muscling into a union

In a London side street, a guy started selling high quality goods, urging us to buy them quickly because they were stolen. A woman standing beside me urged me to buy them because they were a good bargain. She must of been a shill. I just laughed at the entertainment. (Replacing "have" with "of" is another feature of spoken English.)

"Yamamura remained quiet. The wind and the water sounded louder." (p. 71)

Yamamura remains calm under threat but - pathetic fallacy - wind and water sound louder as if adding to the threat.

"Headlights glared as a car passed. The beams didn't touch him." (ibid.)

City life continues although, temporarily, Yamamura is isolated and cannot be helped by the car driver or by anyone else nearby.

"Mist blurred the starpoints that were Berkeley homes." (ibid.)

Yamamura lives across the Bay in Berkeley but, now, might not be able to return there. Threatened with a gun, he does a good job of buying time by pretending that he will wind down his investigation while he is in fact being given excellent reasons to continue it.

Another difference of perspective: Conrad Lauring is a younger man so Yamamura thinks of him as a "...boy..." (p. 72) which is certainly not how we see him when the narrative is presented from his pov.