Justice Not Denied

By Edward John Mastronardi

This book tells the story of the impact of a program humanely disposing a massive inherited fortune of criminally generated wealth on both those trying to honourably accomplish this and others determined using every criminal means in their power violently preventing it.

Carole Masters, a major protagonist in the novel Dancing around the Hill, now in her midthirties, still disarmingly attractive, once cruelly labelled by the press as the Black Widow, was in a disturbing quandary while in the process of launching a major program to charitably dispose her vast, completely unexpected inherited wealth. The huge fortune, unknowingly by her, had been accumulated by her late murdered lover she only knew as David Rosanoff, a successful, very wealthy businessman. In reality, he was Boris Aristine, the notorious head of a major European controlled drug syndicate and responsible for ordering the deaths of her husband, Scott Beaumont, and her Florentine lover, Niccolo Gregorian. Aristines responsibility for their shocking deaths was also not known by her until told of it by a Royal Canadian Mounted Polices chief inspector, Ronald Guthrie.

Julius Silverberg, capo of the New York criminal Syndicate, now the head of its North American operation in Canada and the United States, was warned that a major attempt to close down the Syndicates operations in Canada was being financed by Carole Masterss inherited illegally generated Syndicate wealth. He decided taking action, enlisting the help of Francesco Gianni, the Montreal Syndicate capo, getting rid of the threat. It was a potential death warrant for Carole Masters and those helping her.

The book relates how this transpired, was ultimately dealt with, and what happened to some of the storys main characters at the end.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514481530

Edward John Mastronardi

Edward Mastronardi spent eighteen years in the three Canadian military services (the navy, the army, and the air force), four years in the Canadian aerospace industry, followed by twenty-one years working for the Canadian federal government. He earned the Military Cross for Valor by Great Britain, investiture into the Order of Saint George, the Canadian Forces Decoration in Canada, and the Order of Military Merit by the Republic of Korea, its highest military award for valor and courage. Now retired, he is also the author of Government Policy-Making and Issue Management in 1988, Mock the Haggard Face: A Canadian War Story in 2014, Dancing around the Hill in 2015, and Stories of Life in January 2016.

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JUSTICE NOT DENIED

EDWARD JOHN MASTRONARDI

Copyright © 2016 by Edward John Mastronardi.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2016905404

ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-5144-8155-4

Softcover   978-1-5144-8154-7

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Carole Masters' Wealth Distribution Dilemma

Chapter 2 Ronald Guthrie Makes His Move

Chapter 3 Julius Silverberg Reacts

Chapter 4 Isaac Wiesenthal Meets Jane Price

Chapter 5 Wiesenthal and Rosario Meet with Gianni

Chapter 6 The Bounty Ploy

Chapter 7 Murder For Hire

Chapter 8 Wiesenthal and Rosario 'The Fashion House' Owners

Chapter 9 A Startling Meeting at the Oasis

Chapter 10 Carver and Guthrie at Langley

Chapter 11 Carole Masters and Cory Rosario

Chapter 12 Carole Masters ad Ronald Guthrie

Chapter 13 The New York Meeting

Chapter 14 The Best Laid Plans Go Often Astray

Chapter 15 Monica Westin and Randy Summers

Chapter 16 When the Number Three is 'Too Many!'

Chapter 17 Izzy and Jane

Chapter 18 The Meeting - Cory and Monica

Chapter 19 Wiesenthal's New York Meeting with Silverberg

Chapter 20 Tony Muldoon's Toronto Visit

Chapter 21 Muldoon's Shocking Death Consequences

Chapter 22 The CIA's Bryce Carver Returns

Chapter 23 Wiesenthal - What About Jane?

Chapter 24 Wiesenthal - A Possible Way Out!

Chapter 25 Cory Rosario, Carole Masters and Monica Westin - Reality Intervenes

Chapter 26 Wiesenthal and Marceau meet with Gianni

Chapter 27 Rosario ad Marceau Meet

Chapter 28 The Women - On Facing Reality

Chapter 29 Silverberg - The New York 'hit'

Chapter 30 The Chicago 'hit'

Chapter 31 The Toronto 'hit'

Chapter 32 The Montreal 'hit'

Chapter 33 'Unfinished Business' and The Ottawa 'Hit'

Chapter 34 Looking to the Future - Jane Price and Isaac Wiesenthal

Chapter 35 Looking to the Future - Monica Westin and Randy Summers

Chapter 36 Looking to the Future - Carole Masters and Ronald Guthrie

Introduction

This book tells the story of the impact of a program humanely disposing a massive inherited fortune of criminally generated wealth on both those trying to honourably accomplish this and others determined using every criminal means in their power violently preventing it.

Carole Masters, a major protagonist in the novel 'Dancing around the Hill,' now in her mid thirties, still disarmingly attractive, once cruelly labelled by the press as 'The Black Widow' was in a disturbing quandary while in the process of launching a major program to charitably dispose her vast, completely unexpected inherited wealth. The huge fortune, unknowingly by her had been accumulated by her late murdered lover she only knew as David Rosanoff, a successful very wealthy businessman. In reality he was Boris Aristine, the notorious head of a major European controlled drug syndicate and responsible for ordering the deaths of her husband Scott Beaumont and her Florentine lover Niccolo Gregorian. Aristine's responsibility for their shocking deaths was also not known by her until told of it by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Chief Inspector, Ronald Guthrie.

Julius Silverberg, Capo of the New York criminal Syndicate now the head of its North American operation in Canada and the United States, warned that a major attempt to close down the Syndicate's operations in Canada was being financed by Carole Masters' inherited Syndicate illegally generated wealth, decided taking action, enlisting the help of Francesco Gianni, the Montreal Syndicate Capo, getting rid of the threat. It was a potential death warrant for Carole Masters and those helping her.

The book relates how this transpired, was ultimately dealt with and what happened to some of the story's main characters at the end.

Chapter 1

Carole Masters' Wealth Distribution Dilemma

Carole Masters, on the advice of her friend and unofficial protector, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Chief Inspector Ronald Guthrie, was living in a large luxurious security protected condominium apartment, still in her breath-taking night attire was sipping on a morning coffee provided by her live in maid Elsa. Despite the unselfish voluntary assistance by a small group of trusted close friends who loyally stood by her during the emotionally trying period after her lover, drug lord Boris Aristine, known to her only as David Rosanoff a very wealthy international businessman, failed to return from a 'business' trip to New York. Still shocked by his sudden disappearance and death at the hands of Julius Silverberg then the head of the New York operation now the entire North American Syndicate crime group, Masters was in a quandary over the great difficulty she was experiencing trying to honourably distribute her inherited dead lover's immense criminally obtained fortune.

She and her devoted friends, Randolph Summers, Tony Muldoon, Father Tim Crowley and Jane Price were literally besieged with hundreds of requests from church organizations, fund raising charitable groups and individuals, in the last case some bitter even threatening. The most dangerous reaction was experienced by Julius Silverberg on learning, from a bribed Government member, some of Carole's immense fortune was being applied in a determined effort to shut down the Syndicate's operations. Equally disturbing his being informed she was unofficially being supported by Ronald Guthrie, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Inspector and his friend Bryce Carver of the American Central Intelligence Agency He decided taking action eliminating this dangerous threat for the Syndicate, a potential death warrant for Carole Masters and her close associates.

On being warned of the Syndicate threat at a private meeting with Ronald Guthrie, a concerned Carole Masters asked, How serious is this Ron? I would hate to unnecessarily alarm the others.

Guthrie replied, At the moment Carole, my CIA friend and I don't believe it's imminent. If it comes to that it will be my responsibility to warn them and take appropriate action. My problem could be with the RCMP management and their requirement for direct evidence without which they'd be unable to act. However I've requested meeting with my Deputy Commissionaire to see what can be done.

Randy Summers and Carole having developed a very warm effective business relationship avoided anything of a romantic nature. Although feeling a strong physical attraction to her, because of her sudden great wealth, he was concerned by the possibility of being seen as taking advantage of it at the price of giving up his independence. She, despite being attracted by this English- Canadian younger version of her brutally murdered former lover, Italian Niccolo Gregorian, wasn't ready for any romantic involvement particularly after having learned from Ronald Guthrie that her last lover, David Rosanoff was actually Boris Aristine. Also in the back of her mind was a comment she once made to her apparently jealous lover, in effect 'Summers was only a boy while Rosanoff was a man, her man!' At present the moment the last thing on her mind was any kind of romantic relationship, besides there was just too much for her to do even remotely considering it, her emotional life at a virtual standstill.

Chapter 2

Ronald Guthrie Makes His Move

The disappointing result of his meeting with his Deputy Commissioner wasn't a surprise to Guthrie who realized Canadian law restricted his supervisor's ability addressing the type of threat carefully outlined to him. In addition Guthrie was instructed to pay more attention to his regular duties and not just to Carole Masters' problems. On the other hand, the American CIA having more latitude in dealing with the type of problem the Syndicate, headed by the resourceful Silverberg, was posing in the United States, decided transferring Guthrie's friend to its Ottawa Embassy to unofficially help Guthrie in any way he could. Both Guthrie and Carver had endured a common personal problem, the break- up of their marriages, resulting from their compulsive dedication to their often dangerous, secretive duties as well as their often long absences from home, temptation by other women.

Bryce Carver, after being introduced to Carole Masters. awed by her natural beauty and intelligence said afterwards to Guthrie, Ron, she's a realm gem! Surely you...

Guthrie quickly cut him off, You can stop right there Bryce! Her only interest in me is as a trusted protective friend. After what she's experienced, any romantic interest on her part would have to involve someone like Randy Summers not an over- the- hill cop.

I wouldn't be so sure about that Ron, not by the way she looked at you while you were speaking. Carver replied smiling, shaking his head.

Let's forget all that Bryce. I've been ordered by my brass to drop the Masters' situation attending to my regular duties full time.

Could that be the result of Syndicate pressure, Ron?

No Bryce, I don't think so. It's the restrictions created by Canadian law and my Service's regulations.

Then what are you going to do Ron? We just can't let the Syndicate bastards wipe out Masters and her team.

I'm well aware of that Bryce! I've decided to take an early retirement and protect Carole and her team full-time.

Well Ron old friend, it may be a surprise for you to learn my Langley Masters, in their sometimes amazing wisdom, anticipated something like this could happen and have given me the green light supporting you all the way in getting rid of the rotten Syndicate menace to both Canada and the United States, the latter the primary interest of my people.

Carole Masters was thrilled beyond words when Guthrie informed her of his retiring from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to act as the full time protector of the efforts of her team. At Carver's request Guthrie said little to her of the American involvement. When Carole offered him a salary far above his current one he adamantly refused, finally agreeing to an amount raising his pension to his former salary level as well as his expenses and the use of powerful bullet proofed limousine he requested she purchase for her use.

Carole, who was no fool, pointedly asked Guthrie, Ron, be honest with me! How serious is the Syndicate threat?

Carole, of all people you shouldn't have to ask a question like that after what you've experienced? Let's just say damn serious! But not to worry, it will be taken care of that I guarantee. If you'll be kind enough to let me have a drink then I'll be on my way. There is so much that still needs to be done.

One of Guthrie's first actions was to approach a private security company formed by a former trustworthy retired colleague, Foster Warden, hiring his and the services of six reliable staff members with proven hand gun expertise. Guthrie and Carver had no illusions of what they could be