![]() ![]() Mancini wishes to test Cordi’s loyalty: will he murder th woman he has feelings for? She knew this would happen, and to help Cordi, she commits suicide in front of him.Ĭordi develops an MO: get close to the wife or mistress of each target, romance the woman, and make it hurt the target twice, sometimes killing the woman as well.Ĭordi is deeply cruel, strangely cold and hardboiled - much like an Ennis Willie killer perhaps…and how much like Shell Scott? ![]() His first kill: the ex-mistress of Mancini, whom Cordi has been seeing. Cordi is hired by gang boss Mancini - he gets $300 a week retainer, always ready for a job, which he will get a $5K bonus, 10K if he’s loaned out to another syndicate family. It’s pretty short, 128 pages of big type, so a 30,000-worder, episodic. ![]() The Genuine Wanton is told by Angus Cordi, a syndicate hitman. Seems he used a lot from Seven Slaughters for a number of books, since it’s a collection of stories. Since I have not read them, I can’t pinpoint what Goff used. Apparently, this Goff book has “lifted” passages and plotlines from four Richard Prather novels: Kill the Clown, Shell Scott’s Seven Slaughters, Three’s a Shroud, and Dagger of Flesh… ![]()
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