EASY GREEN by Bill WENHAM

Author:Bill WENHAM [WENHAM, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2011-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

The franchisees all appeared to be ecstatic with Factor’s generous action. However, Vinnie Cardilli, the former farmer who had planned and committed both of the murders, was furious and understandably so.

Chapter Fourteen

Max Torrance’s grandfather, Donato Tarrantino, arrived in New York in the early 1900’s by steamship, along with a large group of other Italian immigrants. They were mostly from southern Italy and Sicily – and had brought some of the more violent elements of their culture to the New World along with them.

After a few months of working around the New York docks, and not being able to find a decent job, Tarrantino became restless. He stole a car and headed for Chicago.

Upon arrival in Chicago, he was almost immediately taken in by a gang of local hoodlums who needed a getaway driver, especially one with his own car. Their specialty was beating up and robbing small business owners.

After a couple of months with them, he decided to take the attractive sister of one of the gang members as his wife. He made no declaration of love for the woman and none was expected in return by her. They were married and that was that.

Over the next couple of years, she bore him two sons, a year apart, before she was shot. He appeared to be emotionless and totally unconcerned at her injuries. But that was just on the surface, for appearances sake only in front of the gang. Inside, though, he was furious since he was aware of the way she’d been shot and by whom, even though he hadn’t been there at the time.

She had been shot, either deliberately or accidentally, in a shootout between his gang and another one in the area. Either way his wife was injured and someone was to blame and would pay for nearly taking his wife’s life by losing his own. Also, in addition to his wife being a victim that day, the leader of his own gang was shot and killed.

Donato Tarrantino had already gained the reputation as being the most vicious enforcer in the gang and took over control without a murmur of protest from any of the other members.

His first task as their leader was to personally eliminate the leader of the gang that had shot his wife. He did it such a way that he was immediately feared as a force to be reckoned with throughout the Chicago underworld. Various pieces of the dead man were delivered to all the other rival gang leaders as a warning. From that that moment on, Tarrantino reigned supreme in his territory.

This all happened in the early days of Chicago, years before anyone had ever even heard of Al Capone and Prohibition. Even so, the streets were still violent and Tarrantino eventually became a target himself. He was killed in another gang war that erupted several years later.

His wife, having recovered from her injuries and fearing for her own safety and that of her two boys, moved to Cleveland. They lived in there in anonymity under her maiden name until the boys were in their late teens.

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