Killing John Barelli (eBook, ePUB)
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John Barelli, a collection agent for local bookmakers, enters the Francesi's Salumeria in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where Nicky Morello works as a stock boy. It is 1972 and Barelli has come to collect the past due debt of the storeowner's son, a degenerate gambler. Nicky follows Barelli as he drags the aging proprietor out into Eighty-sixth Street, where he begins to beat him. A crowd of midday shoppers surrounds the two men, as the elevated B train roars by above. When no one comes to the old man's defense, twelve-year-old Nicky leaps on Barelli's back. The boy's small hands grab on to the gangs...
John Barelli, a collection agent for local bookmakers, enters the Francesi's Salumeria in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where Nicky Morello works as a stock boy. It is 1972 and Barelli has come to collect the past due debt of the storeowner's son, a degenerate gambler. Nicky follows Barelli as he drags the aging proprietor out into Eighty-sixth Street, where he begins to beat him. A crowd of midday shoppers surrounds the two men, as the elevated B train roars by above. When no one comes to the old man's defense, twelve-year-old Nicky leaps on Barelli's back. The boy's small hands grab on to the gangster's eye sockets. When Nicky realizes the futility of his situation, instincts takeover. Suddenly, Barelli howls in pain. Nicky likens the gangster's scream to that of a zebra he had seen in a PBS documentary, when a cackle of hyena's locked their jaws on its hindquarters. Two strong arms lift Nicky above the fray, and, before Barelli can identify him, beyond the perimeter of the crowd. As seventy-two year old Amodeo Francesi lies unconscious near the curb, a bleeding Barelli offers a c-note to anyone in the crowd who will identify the kid who bit off his ear. No one responds. The sound of screeching rubber follows Barelli's fishtailing cherry red, Caddie Eldorado convertible down the street, leaving in its wake an acrid cloud of smoke to settle on the scene of his depravity. Thirty-five years later Niccolo Morello PhD, Chair of NYU's History Department, lectures a class on the papacy of Alexander VI, the last Borgia Pope. The class enjoys the wisecracking, street-smart perspective their bespectacled teacher brings to the subject. Nick explains how the Pope appointed his two illegitimate sons, Cesare and Juan, cardinals and how he defiled his daughter Lucretzia, who produces a third son, the Infans Romanus. One morning Juan's body is found floating in the Tiber. He has been stabbed to death, historians believe, by his brother Cesare. The lecture is the allegorical basis of Killing John Barelli, a first person narrative about Nick Morello, a forty year old widower, who stumbles on to a dark secret: his wife-to-be Nora Waites was raped, when she was a child, by her father the Governor of Connecticut. Nick gets a last minute call from Nora inviting him to dinner at the Four Seasons with her parents, on the last evening of their weeklong stay in New York City. Nora hasn't spoken to her parents in years and is suspicious of their intentions. Towards the end of the evening, the Governor tells Nora he wants to use the Waites School for Emotionally Challenged Children, left in her charge by her philanthropic grandfather, as collateral for an $8 million loan. Nora is shocked and tells her father it would be a violation of her fiduciary responsibility to approve anything that would accrue to the personal benefit of a family member. She's embarrassed that her father would discuss family business in front of Nick. Her father persists; saying her brother Roy has interpreted a codicil in their grandfather's will that permits such an arrangement. Nick sits quietly, taken aback by the lack of warmth demonstrated by Nora's parents, and how the dinner evolved into a business meeting. Nora's mother Estelle, is silently aloof, decidedly inebriated and ignores Nick's attempts at conversation. He compares Nora's parents to his own fractured family, and appreciates his good fortune. After dinner, Nick and Nora go to Nick's penthouse home on the Upper Eastside to discuss her father's proposal. Nick's teenage daughter, Lori, and his stepfather, Albert Denton, greet them. Nick recalls how he was just eleven, when his father failed to come home from his job as a bartender one night, never to be seen or heard from again.
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