Shot at Close Range
By; John Silvester and Andrew RuleLocation: NF 920 SIL
Genre: Organized Crime- mafia and stuff
Series; Underbelly
This is the real true story of the underbelly of organized crime in Aussie
Who goes to a funeral of a mafia gang lord and why...
'Pino' Acquaro got his
big Italian funeral, but the mobsters didn't get the memo. The church
was packed but nearly every gangster he knew stayed away. The handsome
mafia lawyer had bungled burning down his Brunswick bar for the
insurance but he had burned his bridges beyond repair. A couple of hard
men turned up. The sort that wear sunglasses in church. One was the
departed's last client, a cool customer who'd been a regular at
Acquaro's bar. And there was a bald heavyweight wearing so much chunky
gold he'd hardly need concrete boots if he had to be sent to sleep with
the fishes.
The dead man's son read from the Book of Wisdom. The bit that says he who lives among sinners being carried off before treachery seduces the soul. Good advice but it came too late for the guy in the coffin...Just another tale from Australia's underbelly. There are plenty more in Shot at Close Range, the latest from the writers that have charted the rise and rise of crime in this country for more than twenty years.
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