Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claim to fame: I was pressed up against Bill Clinton for fifteen minutes--sweating. Some guy was asking him what car he drove, and I was pressed up against Bill because of this big mob. Front to front. Belly to belly. Maybe not fifteen minutes, it seemed like forever. I got to shake his hand, felt the sweat, yes. And I have the autograph to prove...
Hard to argue that civilization is in tip-top shape, and Elmore Leonard isn't in the mood to try. In Pronto (Delacorte; 265 pages) it's the Mob that has gone mushy. Harry Arno, a South Florida bookie, has reached what would be retirement age if you retired from the kind of business associations he has made, which you don't. But he does. He has been skimming the Mob's share of the take for years, and he has used the boodle to buy a villa in Rapallo, Italy, where he was stationed during World...
Anyway, Arno is pursued ineptly by the Florida Mob and its bumbling parent organization in Italy, and also by his mistress Joyce and a U.S. marshal named Raylan Givens. Arno, who's 66, is thinking of trading in Joyce, who's about 40, for a younger tootsie, although maybe not; she still looks pretty good, and he hasn't decided. Straight-shooting Raylan's determined to find Arno, save Joyce from peril and foil the evildoers, and by page 256, it all works out. Always has in Leonard's quirky tales; always will...
...Carey's memory failing -- or is he a friend of the Mob? If his family ties turn out to be real and continuing, it will be a crushing blow for a faltering union that believed it was finally getting a breath of fresh...
Does crusading union president Ron Carey have mob ties...