Hizzoner, A Scoundrel's Story

By Charles N. Ferrara

Urban political and criminal scoundrel humor at its most outrageous. The year is 1980 and New York City is in the throes of a crisis with municipal unions threatening strikes, city services in decline, and financial deficits mounting. Violent crime is escalating by the day and a serial killer the tabloids call Splatter is on the loose.Every corner of the city wreaks from a month old sanitation union strike. Paralleling the city's crisis is that of the tiny Manhattan mob led by Tony "Gimp" Giampa whose organization is undergoing an existential crisis of its own. As leader of the country's most financially successful organized crime family, Gimp and his mob are fast becoming victims of their own success as three other parasitic local crime families want a piece of Gimp's action and are threatening war. With a growing sense of desperation, corrupt city fixer-politician, Sol Bernstein, convinces Gimp to use his name recognition as a "successful businessman" in a Gimp long shot electoral run for mayor to enlist the support of the municipal government in his mob war. Can the country's most financially successful crime boss, while engaged in a full scale mob war, simultaneously lead the country's largest and most troubled city out of its darkest hour?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1692683373
• ISBN13: 9781692683375
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"