The car in front of Sonny drove forward a little way and
stopped. Sonny drove up to the tollbooth. He gave the man inside his
money and tried to drive away, but the car was still in front of him. The
man in the tollbooth dropped the money and bent down to pick it up.
From the corner of his eye, Sonny noticed something moving in the
empty tollbooth on his right. He looked round and saw four men
standing in the windows looking at him. At the same moment, two men
got out of the car in front and began to walk towards him. They were
carrying machine-guns. Sonny thought about driving backwards, but he
was too late. In the second before anything happened, Sonny knew that
he was a dead man