SNIPPETS FROM THE BOOK

Okay, so why do these authors want to kill Vinny? We will post a "snippet" every few days, and see if you hope that Danny, Margaret and Maria, get the job done. There is a surprise ending, but that's one thing we won't reveal.

SNIPPET #1 From the Prologue

     So what we have is an apparent Mob hit. The cops should have no shortage of suspects. It has been widely known that there were a number of crime figures and organizations that wanted “The Nose” eliminated for one reason or another. Take Nose’s ambitious underling Brutali Bonano, for example. He didn’t agree with his bosses’ management style and thought he could do a better job. Was he behind a hostile takeover? Or how about the Bloods? I’ve reported in the past that the gang wasn’t happy about the amount of tribute Mancuso demanded for keeping his hands out of their drug operations.

     The excessive violence used in the killing opens another possibility. But for his huge schnoz, Mancuso was considered handsome and had a swashbuckling image, much like the late Errol Flynn. Could the destruction of his face be a message from the husband or boyfriend of a woman he’d become too friendly with? Whoever pulled the trigger may have been sending a message. Because he certainly saw to it that the deceased gangster would as no longer be appealing to look at.

SNIPPET #2 CHAPTER 1 Posted 6/1/15

     Vinny tipped the scales at just over four hundred pounds, distributed evenly over his five-foot-seven frame, which had earned him the nickname Fat Vinny. As he sat there glaring at the man and woman seated across from him, he drew on the cigar and blew smoke in their direction.           

     “You call this piece of crap finished? It’s not the book I thought it was going to be.” He rubbed the cigar around his frog-like lips and let out a disgusted sigh.

     Danny Garrett leaned forward, his body language tight. “Well, you thought wrong, then. This is the book we signed a contract to write. We’re willing to do some minor touchups, but you’re the one who gave us the assignment. You sat in on the development meetings. Now you have the nerve to say it’s crap? What exactly did you expect?”

     Looking at Garrett, a former FBI agent with a string of successful books behind him, Vinny sensed he was not one to be bullied. The word was Garrett left the Bureau twenty years earlier after his cover had been blown, and he narrowly missed being taken out by a psycho mobster. Though from what Vinny heard, he was still a tough guy.

     Danny’s co-author Margaret Stanton added, “Look, Vinny, you wanted the memoir of a Mob wife; you got the memoir of a Mob wife and, I might add, our proofreaders thought it was really good. They want a copy as soon as it comes out. We’ve even spoken to producers of a few of the hot talk shows and there’s a good possibility of national TV exposure. So what’s your problem?”

     “My problem is—” Vinny paused, trying to look menacing, not realizing to Danny and Margaret he probably wound up looking like a frog puffing on a cigar.