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A Bloody Business: The Rise of Organized Crime in America by Dylan Struzan
A Bloody Business: The Rise of Organized Crime in America by Dylan Struzan
There's a pop. The slug from a double-barreled shotgun rips through Tom Reina's chest, dislodging bits of flesh and embedding the button of his shirt into his skin. He reels backward, slams into a brick wall, and then stumbles forward. Time slows. His mind snaps into sharp focus. Grouping for the snub-nose .38 in his coat pocket, Reina searches through the low light of evening for his would-be assassin. He spots two ghostly shadows tucked behind a parked car.
The two men step from the shadows. One flips open his coat and pulls out a shotgun, twin to the one that just fired. He takes aim at Reina and pulls the first trigger. Shotgun pellets slam Reina's chest and stop him in his tracks. He staggers. the shooter pulls the second trigger. More buckshot. Bits of Reina's flesh go flying and Reina goes down, face first onto the frozen sidewalk, the snob-nose still clutched firmly in his hand. The second shooter rushes the body, firing nine more slugs point blank from a .38. Blood drenches Reina's shirt and handmade suit, floods the sidewalk and runs down the curb.
The first shooter tosses the shotgun under a parked car and the two men flee.
For a moment, Reina's mind dawdles in this world. He thinks about the ten grand he was on his way to collect and the cash behind the basement furnace that his wife will never find. He knows his outspokenness against Joe the Boss has brought on the attack. He knows but doesn't care. His head swims in a mass of confusion as blood leaves his body and weakness sets in and then Reina's concerns disappear along with his heartbeat and his iron-clad hold on the ice distribution business in the Bronx.
Cold Case Crime, Hardcover, 2019
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