Killing Charlie

By B Heon

Killing Charlie: The Black Sheep..is a short story inspired by true events. Born to American royalty, a son to two of Florida's founding families, deserts his shot at the white house for a life of crime. The rise of an empire, the definition of the american dream, the fall of an American gangster.

• Language: English
• Publisher: B Heon
• Release date: Dec 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311676559

B Heon

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Killing Charlie

The Black Sheep

a short story

written By B. Heon

....Inspired by True Events...

Copyright 2014 Brandon Heon

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Part 1: The Black Sheep Rises

Charlie was born in the summer of 1880 in Tampa, Florida to two prominent political families. His father, a surgeon during the civil war stationed in Brooksville, would later become Mayor of Tampa from 1878 to 1880. He was heralded for his milestones for the Cuban community, along with his founding of the Tampa Chambers of Commerce. Charlie’s mother was of Scottish decent, whose father James also was mayor of Tampa from 1859 to 1860. Charlie McKall had what some would say a foot in. He could have sat in any seat, at any branch of government and could have had a tremendous career in politics. But young Charlie fancied the back alley crap games and gambling dens over his father’s office, or rather any office aptly earning him the nick