After dinner Don Lupara’s men dropped me off at the fully renovated seaside home on the Bay of Naples a wedding gift for a wedding that never was to be due to Ginevra’s murder. It was payback time. Cyclops who had planted a roadside explosive device that killed my sweet Campanian plum Ginevra and our unborn child. I took a bottle of Lacryma de Christi red wine and sat on the balcony watching the twinkling lights of Naples. Thinking. Thinking. After a glass of this volcanic delight, I took a tour of our house which up to this point I had only heard about from Ginevra who had taken great pains to decorate in a modernist style instead of the overly gaudy Neapolitan nouveau riche style. I opened a door beside what was to be our bedroom and froze in my tracks. A quiet furious rage set my entire body and mind on fire. Adjacent to the bedroom was the nursery for our unborn murdered in the Cyclops’ engineered bomb blast. Now there was no doubt rage, amoral familism and a Neapolitan vendetta that were easily turning me into a killer.
I phoned Don Lupara with my intent to go ahead with the deed. All I needed was Cyclops’ location in Romania. Don Lupara said you just don’t wander around with a gun and shoot your target. Planning was needed so we were to meet over breakfast to discuss this plan.
What we knew about Cyclops at this point:
- He had fled Naples to Romania and specifically to Braşov a city of some 375,000 in the province of Transylvania nestled close to the South Carpathian Mountains.
- He was working with the Russian mob using his Albanian connections to funnel low grade heroin into Braşov for the Romanian and Bulgarian market.
- He was engaged in sex trafficking of Ukrainian and Albanian girls.
- He was smuggling Albanians into Greece.
- Security was very tight with local Romanian ex-soldiers of the elite Eagle Unit in his security detail.
- He was a pedophile surrounding himself with teenage girls, all minors.
- The Russian mob had serious enemies in Romania particularly the Romanian mob known as the Strigoi who were in a vicious struggle with the Russians.
- The Russian mob had “friends” at the ministerial level of the Romanian government so extradition of Cyclops to Italy was a virtual impossibility.
- The Russian mob and Cyclops were growing poppies in massive plantations hidden throughout Transylvania manufacturing a potent heroin called “Romanian Lightning”. The Romanian Strigoi would celebrate the death of Cyclops.
It seemed then Cyclops was not going to be an easy hit. What was Don Lupara’s plan?
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