Mob Blog: An Old Soldier.
[dcs_p]Mob Blog: An Old Soldier, April 26, 2013
[dcs_p] I‘m in Grand Isle visiting an old mobster, a man who first worked for my father, and then for me. He’s a soft-spoken man, eighty-eight years old and still going strong. He’s staying in a cottage built on stilts, with a front room cooled by a noisy window-unit that clicks off every now and then, leaving us with the faint sounds of boat motors and seagulls. The green island sits in the gulf, south of New Orleans. When I was a kid, my father brought me here to to visit this man. He was a legend then, although now he’s been largely forgotten. But not by me. I visit whenever I can, a sort of surrogate son to a man who taught me to do some very unpleasant things. An old soldier, fading away.[/dcs_p][dcs_p]Patricia Bellomo is the author of the crime and mob thriller books, Louie Morelli’s Mistress, Stella di Mare, and Louie Morelli’s Daughter. This anecdote is written in the voice of her main character, mobster Louie Morelli. Books available at Amazon & B&N.
