"Other youngsters, including his own son, Vito junior, had been hopeless. They dawdled. They moped. They lived in a fog. Sometimes one would take an order and disappear. Tuddy needed a sharp kid who knew his way around. A kid who wanted to hustle." Chapter 1, p. 14
"'There was no question - Jimmy could plant you just as fast as shake your hand. It didn't matter to him. At dinner he could be the nicest guy in the world, but then he could blow you away for dessert."' Chapter 2, p. 24
"'He had to pay us two hundred a week apiece, and for that he could have hired a real maotre d' and bartender. Also, we were stealing him blind. Everything we stole or gave away came out of his pocket. I know that we used.....
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