Assassin by M. T. Hallgarth

Author:M. T. Hallgarth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016-04-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY

We had sat down under the shade of the old cottonwood tree and had lunch. After lunch, he had politely asked his wife if she could take the children to the petting zoo, which had been on the other side of the old western mining town.

Settling his wide frame into a canvas camping chair, he had looked me directly in the face. “I ain’t no gangster,” he had suddenly blurted out, taking me by surprise.

“I’m quite sure you’re not,” I had replied, a little condescendingly. For fuck’s sake, he was Mafia, wasn’t he? How much less of a gangster can you get than that? “Cigarette,” I had said, offering him one of mine.

“No, thanks,” he had replied, putting his hand up. “I never had a use for them.”

“Do you mind if I do?” I had asked.

“Nope – you go ahead,” he had replied, before going on and saying, “Before we talk business, I need to tell you something about myself – I need to explain myself.”

“Okidoki,” I had said, sitting back in my canvass chair, and lighting up a cigarette. I had been quite interested in what my host had to say.

Slowly, in carefully measured words, my host had told me something about himself. Salvatore G... had been the eldest and only son of a third generation Sicilian family – the rest of his five siblings had all been girls. Starting at the age of thirteen, running errands, Sal’s father had risen steadily through the ranks of the Cleveland Family, from soldier to capo – and then to ‘under boss’, second in command of the family. However, despite his position in the Mob, Sal’s father had been determined that his son would not follow in his footsteps – ‘No son of mine is going to be a gangster’. So, he had sent the young Sal to the best of schools, paying for private education and tuition. And, Sal had not let his father down; graduating from Harvard, with a Law Degree; before going on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he gotten his Masters in both Business Administration and Accounting. Sal had wanted to be a high school teacher, or even a college professor, and had just started the first year of a four-year doctorate, in Economics, at MIT, when his father had been killed in an auto wreck. The sudden tragic death of his father had meant that he could no longer pursue his academic aspirations – he suddenly had a mother and five younger sisters to support. At first, Sal had no intention of working for the Cleveland Mob. But they had been very good to his family - financially supporting Sal’s mother and sisters, helping them through bad times. So, when the Boss of the Cleveland Family had asked Sal to come and be his ‘Consigliere’, he had readily accepted. The then Boss of the Cleveland Family had admired Sal’s sharp, keen intellect and extensive education, and had appointed him as the Family’s lawyer and business advisor – effectively making him his right hand man.

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