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Sons and Princes
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Sons and Princes (2011) (edit title/settings)

by James LePore (Author) (edit contributors)

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Chris Massi has been running from his world his entire life. The son of a Mafia assassin and the former son-in-law of a mob kingpin, Massi has tried to stay on the right side of the law, building a prestigious career as an attorney, and insulating his children as much as possible. But now a... read more

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  • “I could easily kill this old man, Chris thought, and escape into the night. No one would ever know it was me.”
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  • Do not beg for any man’s approval, even if he is your son, or your father. And once you give your word, you must keep it, or die trying.”
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  • It takes courage to live, and faith, but more courage and more faith to die,
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  • A person’s history consists essentially of a series of unexpected events.
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  • “Do you know why some nations thrive, and others don’t?” “Why?” “The sword. They’re not afraid to kill, not afraid of the consequences of killing.” “Indiscriminately?” “Of course not. But deciding who’s an enemy and who’s not is not difficult. The effete and the fat
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  • Hunting to survive has faded away, to be replaced in American culture by sports, which require the same skills: brute force, deftness of hand, foot and mind and bravery.
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  • difference between a firm of investment bankers and a Mafia family was that the bankers stole legally but without honor, while the Mafia family stole illegally but with honor.
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  • the ancient language of prayer, forgotten words that appear without effort in our hearts in times of crisis.
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  • Chris’ ex-wife, Teresa, his two children, Tess, sixteen, and Matt, about to turn fourteen, Teresa’s father, Anthony “Junior Boy” DiGiglio and his wife, Mildred. Chris, the eldest son,
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  • It is one of the rules of life that parents give their children a lot of heartache, but when they die, it is a wrenching loss, as if that heartache was after all something we needed more than anything else in the world.
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  • wife against which there was no hope of prevailing. Shaking his head, acknowledging to himself the stupidity of an ad
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Joe Black Massi’s funeral had been a singular experience. His body, or rather sufficient parts of it to make it identifiable, had been found in a suitcase in the Gawanus Canal in Brooklyn on the first day of the year 2003.

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  1. James LePore (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: The Story Plant
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 5, 2011
ISBN: 978-0984190522
Page Count: 352

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