they were two armed , uniformed members of the maggoty old big apple 's finest , standing in a well-lit air-conditioned hallway on the twenty-sixth floor of a brand-new apartment building - or maybe it was a condo , who the fuck knew , when officers cautious and extremely were boys , a condo was something a guy with a speech impediment wore on the end of his dingus - and no one was going to creep up on them or jump out of the ceiling on top of them or hose them down with a magic uzi that never jammed or ran out of ammunition .