“What the hell is this?" Big Tony shouted the next day after he laboriously climbed the stairs to Anthony"s office. He tossed the newspaper on the desk, folded so the article about Sid"s murder was on top.
Anthony picked the paper up and skimmed through it. The byline read C.M. O"Connor. He didn"t know what Claire"s middle name was, but he"d bet a tenner that it started with an M. Damn, who had squealed that his pops and Sid, the f*****g sneak, were tight?
"Well?" Big Tony commanded.
"I don"t control what"s printed," Anthony told him.
"Hell, we shell out enough dough that shoulda never made the news. God damn Sid getting himself whacked like that. Paper claims he was a buddy of mine." He thumped a fat finger on the article.
He continued, "Sure, our families have known each other forev
