Sins of the Father

J. D. Henington

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For the past twenty-two years Marcello di Paulo has been the faithful Consigliore to Pietro Giordano, Capo of one of the most powerful Camorra Families in Naples. However, recent events have seen their close relationship deteriorate out of control.

Di Paulo seizes control of the Family Clan and embarks on a journey of personal revenge and fortune hunting only to plummet into the same self-serving lifestyle as that of his former Capo.
Along the way, he connects with a previously unknown Australian family sharing the same bloodline.
Family loyalty becomes irrelevant and inconsequential when the dark secrets of the family leads to outright hostility as the two antagonists declare Clan war in their struggle to win honour and the disputed family treasure.

Sujets

• Historical
• Suspenso
• Suspense
• Fiction
• Justice

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris AU
• Date de parution: 05 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669831280
• Langue: English

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SINS OF THE FATHER


JUSTICE PART II






J. D. HENINGTON



Copyright © 2022 by J. D. Henington.

Library of Congress Control Number:
2022915127
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-3124-2
Softcover
978-1-6698-3123-5
eBook
978-1-6698-3128-0

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Rev. date: 08/11/2022




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CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32

















The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice










The sins of the father are visited upon the children. This statement is often linked to the keeping of God’s Commandments and the consequences of sin passing through to subsequent generations. The statement in this concept tells us that sin does have consequences. The children of those who sin inherit the seed of sin, the sin nature, and the consequences.
Moreover, certain sins too often do carry intergenerational consequences. One could readily put together an extensive list of family abuse, community and neighbour immorality, and sins of personal abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. Unfortunately, because of parental environment and upbringing, parental behaviour is potentially generational.
However, there are those who reject this notion; that is, when the sins of the fathers visit the children, those children are not bound to play host. The actions of the fathers are not part of the DNA of further generations and should not represent the child, and in no way should children live a disadvantaged life because of their father’s sins.
The notion of generational denial does arise, not necessarily because of anti-biblical beliefs, but because of deliberate, personal denial of parental wickedness, often to extreme lifestyles.
Does there exist, can there exist, is it possible to exist some in-between ground? Is it possible for the next generation to choose and deliberately select the father’s sins to conveniently excuse their own immoral actions?
This latest novel by J. D. Henington considers the concept of seeking vengeance, reprisal, and justice through the deliberate misuse of the sins of the father.



CHAPTER 1
Marcello Di Paulo, the Giordano family clan consigliere, had been employed by Don Pietro Giordano in 1981 at the age of 35. Di Paulo possessed an exceptional curriculum vitae, including an outstanding academic career, having completed studies at the Università di Bologna and the Sorbonne Université and achieved his PhD studies at Oxford University, as well as subsequent employment at some of the best financial institutions and law firms in Europe. Aside from Italian, he spoke fluent French, German, and English and was blessed with an almost unparalleled talent, some described as bordering on genius, in international business intelligence gathering and forensic investigation skills, bringing together a complete process of business data analysis, as well as providing a superior understanding to his client of illicit and unethical situations, such as bribery, corruption, theft, defrauding, or fraud.
However, Pietro Giordano, capo of the Giordano family clan, saw in Di Paulo a skill set which had the potential to open the hitherto inaccessible doors of organised Camorra crime to a new level of profitable legitimate business. The financial and lifestyle arrangement that Giordano offered Marcello Di Paulo was an offer he could not refuse.
Marcello Di Paulo was a slim man, which belied his above-average physical strength, medium height, slight tan, clean cut, a receding greying hairline, and not unfavourable or outstanding physical features. He was always immaculately yet conservatively dressed in expensive designer clothing and footwear. His titanium-framed eyewear completed his appearance of a businessman to be respected.
Despite his appearance, he was somewhat of an introvert, preferring to stay in the background, rarely seeking the limelight. That was Di Paulo’s forte, much desired by his capo. Yet he approached his profession with all the passion and zeal of a hungry lion on the hunt.
Marcello Di Paulo was the clan’s international business consigliere; his expertise and contacts were in the world of law, sky-high finance and economics, and making money, lots of money, without the slightest hint of suspicion from financial institutions, corporations, or government authorities throughout the world. He specialised in clan legal and financial business, not life skills. He was completely devoid of interpersonal skills outside his field of business negotiation. He shunned the limelight, living a secluded lifestyle, the classic back-room specialist operating in the shadows. His name was never up in lights, never any media coverage reporting his deals. He was a complete unknown, totally anonymous, which suited him and Giordano perfectly.
Further, Marcello Di Paulo was not a people person. And unfortunately, people skills are more intuitive than learned, requiring a wide variety of interpersonal skills to meet a multiplicity of scenarios with all types of people. More often than not, it is a natural skill that forms part of the fabric of a person rather than acquired through education. And the Camorra is not the best environment to develop and hone such skills.



CHAPTER 2
At the insistence of one of Capo Pietro Giordano’s loyal soldiers, Gino Verona, Marcello visited his unwell capo at the height of the Camorra war between the Giordano and Simonolli clans. Pietro Giordano had successfully built his own family clan during the horrors of post–World War II Naples through his insightfulness, dedication, secrecy, anonymity, and an extremely ruthless approach to ‘business’. At 80 years of age, he enjoyed relatively good health and looked ten years younger.
However, throughout his life, on occasions, he suffered mild to severe depression, lasting variously from a short period to more extended periods, generally depending on the acuteness of a breakdown in his lifestyle routine. The death of three of his sons in a car accident sent Pietro spiralling into deep depression for months. Similarly, a complete and total failure of a financial arrangement he had personally orchestrated in 1987, leaving him clueless about what went wrong, propelled him into an extended period of despondency. Retirement had been kind to him since he anointed his eldest son, Luigi, as capo of the Giordano clan several years previously. The Giordano family clan had been constructed in typical Neapolitan Camorra hierarchy: the head or capo; his underboss, who more than likely would eventually be elevated to capo; and the clan adviser or consigliere.
Marcello knew that this meeting at Pietro’s bedside would be unpleasant with Pietro’s sudden turn of poor physical health and his mental instability, brought about by the sudden death of his most loved and cherished youngest daughter, Sophia. Giordano had made it well known that he loved Sophia more than he loved life itself.
‘Without my Sophia, I am a dead man,’ he often said. Giordano, without any supporting evidence, was quick to blame the Simonolli family for the murder of his angel, instantly declaring clan warfare in retribution.
Marcello was prepared for the worst. His normal pleasant, equable demeanour was now perched on a knife’s edge. He had been conducting his own private investigation into the events surrounding Sophia’s death. However, while he considered he had adequate evidence to positively conclude the matter, he nevertheless was not satisfied he had sufficient proof to bring the matter to completion.
Waving away Verona and instructing him to close the door behind him, Marcello sat alongside his capo’s large bed in his grand bedroom, ostentatiously decorated, sparing no expense yet displaying typical, poor Giordano taste.
‘Don Pietro, please, I counsel you and beg you to stop this war with the Simonelli’s. Nothing good can come from it. Your health has declined so rapidly that I genuinely fear for your life. Please!’
‘ You counsel me? You counsel me ? Tell me when you have ever given m