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Columbus Avenue Boys: Avenging the Scalamarri Massacre
Columbus Avenue Boys: Avenging the Scalamarri Massacre
Columbus Avenue Boys: Avenging the Scalamarri Massacre
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Salvatore Esposito, Anthony Albanese, and Christopher Cameronthe Columbus Avenue Boysare somewhat related, as they share lineage back to before the turn of century. Having grown up together in a small community north of New York City, each became successful in his own right. Chris moved to Dallas to be a portfolio manager with a financial firm while Sal and Tony earn their living the hard wayby being enforcers and major earners for the mob.

Tonys grandfather, Pops Scala, tells them a horrific secret from the Scalamarri family past: twelve members of their family were massacred at the hands of Bugsy Siegel and his ruthless gang from Murder Inc. in 1935. Pops was the sole witness and lone survivor, and he was more than happy to pull the trigger and end Bugsys murderous life.

Now fifty years later, Pops convinces the Columbus Avenue Boys they must leave the underworld life for good. Since one cannot just give two weeks notice to the Gambino crime family, the three blood brothers devise a plan to infiltrate the inner workings of the Mafia in the 1990s to avenge the massacre in their family tree.

Columbus Avenue Boys chronicles the Scalamarri family tree throughout the twentieth century and presents a historical perspective of the life and struggles of an Italian immigrant family as well as that of Americas organized crime.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateApr 17, 2012
ISBN9781469778303
Columbus Avenue Boys: Avenging the Scalamarri Massacre
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David Carratura

David Carraturo grew up in Tuckahoe, an Italian-Irish community in Westchester County, New York. He also wrote Cameron Nation: Going All-In to Save His Country. He has spent more than twenty-five years working on Wall Street; he is married, has three daughters, and is an avid poker player.

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    The Columbus Avenue boys (Sal, Chris and Tony) are very distantly related cousins and grew up together in a small town close to New York City. The friends remained close through the years despite Chris moving to Texas for his job at a financial firm. While Chris was crunching numbers in Texas, Sal and Tony were earning their livings as enforcers for the Gambino crime family. Sal and Tony decide they want out of the mob life they have become accustomed to and Chris has a plan to make this seemingly impossible mission feasible. The plan requires Sal and Tony to become informants for the FBI. Will Chris’s plan free Sal and Tony from their responsibilities with the mob without casualties? What family secrets will the men learn along the way?Columbus Avenue Boys is an exceptionally well researched historical fiction novel. Readers will fall in love with Sal, Chris, Tony and many other family members. The characters and scenes are described with such exquisite detail; you feel you are with them as a silent observer. This story is told with chapters alternating from the beginning of the family’s mob ties in the late 1800’s (past) to the 1990’s (present) until the past and present catch up at the end of the book. I am a huge fan of historical fiction and love to be able to imagine what life could have been like for individuals during the early 1900’s in America. Columbus Avenue Boys not only gives us an inside look at the life of mob members, but also lessons in American history and the importance of family.

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