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The year is 1975, the year of Hoffa's disappearance and there is trouble in the Tucci family. Don Vittorio is dying and his heir apparent, grandson Bobby, wants nothing to do with his inheritance because the family has set him to the task of murdering Hoffa. Not to mention Bobby's shark-like mother, Annette, who is all in favour and a force to be reckoned with: "She had come out of the kitchen wearing a burnt-orange leisure suit and matching lipstick, mules with five-inch stiletto heels, and a CuttySark-induced grin." What's more, she's intent on using every man she meets--she's even willing to sacrifice Bobby to get what she wants.
But the real hero of the story, the world-weary Mendy Pearlstein, saunters through the text as a has-been. One-time member of the feared "Purple Gang", Mendy has been there, done that and bought the T-shirt in 1935. The old man becomes Bobby's mentor and in the end it's Mendy alone who's capable of pulling the fat from the fire.
William Wolf is a pseudonym of a journalist and author whose "reluctance to reveal his true identity is unrelated to anything he may or may not know about the actual events surrounding the disappearance of the late Jimmy Hoffa. Honest." The racy and conversational style of Whacking Jimmy has all the assurance of a professional and, like the characters in it, the vocabulary pulls no punches. --Elizabeth McGregor
PRAISE FOR WHACKING JIMMY
'Whacking Jimmy is a seventies flashback, Mafia style - a classic caper built around one of the greatest unsolved crimes in history. It is a hip, hilarious thriller for readers of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard' - CrimeTime
'Original and hilarious' - Publishers Weekly
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