Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra

Author:Lorenzo Carcaterra
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Organized crime, Police Procedural, Murder, Mystery & Detective, True Crime, Fiction - Espionage, New York (N.Y.), Young men, General, Fiction, Gangsters, Bildungsromans, Italian Americans, thriller, Serial Killers, Science fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Mafia, Intrigue, Espionage
ISBN: 9780345425294
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2002-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

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MARY HAD SAT silently for many minutes, her eyes on Angelo, her mind swayed by the memories she had conjured up during our long night together. Behind me, the early-morning sun was bringing the city to life, while outside the room the nurses were in the midst of a shift change. He was so afraid to get close to anyone, she finally said, looking back up at me. Anyone he ever got close to had ended up dead.

He was close to you, I said. At least I think he was, from the way you talk about him. And you're still alive.

There are many different ways to die, Mary said. Sometimes words can inflict more pain than any bullet. Angelo understood that.

Is that what he did with you?

And with you, she said.

Then why are we here? I asked. Why are we the ones who still care?

Maybe he didn't take all the love we felt for him away from us, Mary said, her beautiful face suddenly twisted and sad.

Why not? A rush of anger added an edge to my words. If he was so tough, so ruthless, why couldn't he make us hate him enough to wish him dead?

Mary pulled back her chair and walked toward the large door in the corner of the room. Her head was down and her hands were at her side, her walk still poised and dignified. Maybe he didn't want to, she said with her back to me. It could be as simple as that.

Then she walked out into the hall, the thick door closing slowly behind her, leaving me alone with Angelo in the stillness of the dying man's room.

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