he was walking down the street toward the little shoe store and as he was crossing the street suddenly a car roars up the street at high speed it pulls up next to him and screeches to a halt then two guys get out one next to him one behind him and they immediately open fire with Kalashnikovs they riddle him with bullets he fell back on the trunk of the car face up the car started off but the corpse wouldn’t fall to the ground they had to get out grab the arms and legs of the blood spattered corpse and throw it down onto the street and then they got back in and the car drove off thumping over the corpse and before the car roared off at high speed tires squealing they tossed a bomb into the little shoe store and blew it sky high so not only did they kill him but they also destroyed his shop as if to say those who challenge us those who fail to obey our orders will be eliminated along with everything that we have allowed them to earn that was the message

and in fact there is always the danger of internal clan problems because usually if someone is inducted into the clan most likely before too long that person will bring others with him his brother his cousin or a friend and while on the one hand this does lead to a healthy expansion in the clan’s forces and make it possible to control through one made man at the same time a number of other made men through their family ties it also entails a risk that a natural grouping of relatives and friends might decide to band together to set up business for themselves outside the clan which would necessarily mean clashing with the clan which although it is powerful in and of itself is still made up of a great many little groups of brothers and friends and in certain cases these groups also cut business deals of their own on the side but they have to be very careful when they do because they might clash with the higher interests of the clan and run the risk of being eliminated

the first people to understand even before the collapse of the Berlin Wall that the economy of the Eastern Bloc countries was beginning to crumble and that there might be excellent opportunities to make money were the Italians and in particular the clans from down here in the lists of companies that set up business in eastern Europe are many that have Albanova in their name but Albanova is the name that Mussolini gave to a township that included my town and two neighboring towns this one township however was split back up after the war into three separate townships and in fact there is still a train station in my town that is called Albanova and Albanova is also the name of the soccer team that the clan created during its greatest period of prosperity and expansion it was a C Series team with ambitions of making it up to B Series ranking and with that goal in mind a new stadium was built in great haste in short Albanova is the name that the clan used for its soccer team and for its business enterprises in eastern Europe perhaps because the clan was convinced that this was a name that would bring it good luck