Hizzoner, A Scoundrel's Story - Softcover

Ferrara, Charles N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1692683373 ISBN 13: 9781692683375

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Urban political and criminal scoundrel humor at its most outrageous. The year is 1980 and New York City is in the throes of a crisis with municipal unions threatening strikes, city services in decline, and financial deficits mounting. Violent crime is escalating by the day and a serial killer the tabloids call Splatter is on the loose. On top of that, every corner of the city wreaks from a month old sanitation union strike. Paralleling the city's crisis is that of the tiny Manhattan mob led by Tony "Gimp" Giampa, whose organization is undergoing an existential crisis of its own, fighting for its very survival. Gimp and his mob are fast becoming a victim of their own success with Gimp's entrepreneurially prodigious underboss Willie "Semen" Seminelli rapidly building new lucrative, illegitimate businesses, and the other three parasitic area crime families wanting a piece of the action, and threatening war. With a growing sense of desperation, Willie and corrupt city fixer politician Sol Bernstein are convinced that drastic measures must be taken, in the form of using Gimp's name recognition, in a Gimp long shot electoral run for mayor as a "successful businessman", expressly for the purpose of enlisting the New York Police Department and other levers of city government to join him in his battle for survival against the other three families. Will the Manhattan mob and the city of New York survive their existential crises with the country's most financially successful crime boss fighting for the survival of his crime family while, at the same time, at the helm of the country's largest and most troubled city, leading the fight for the city's survival?

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About the Author

Charles Ferrara is a native New Yorker. He is a humorist with equal measures of healthy and not so healthy New York City cynicism. His  sarcastic and satirical  humor can best be encapsulated as Damon Runyonesque with a side order of Jimmy Breslin. He has written shorter pieces for publications. Hizzoner is his first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1692683373
• ISBN 13: 9781692683375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175