The Empty Coffin of the Falcone Heir

Every year, on the day the Family raised someone up in public, that honored one would soon be found dead. The higher the Falcone name lifted them, the more brutal the ending.

The Feds put a task force together each time, working the manhunt from the outside, but no matter how hard they pressed against the wall of silence, they never learned why it kept happening.

As fear spread through the ranks, some men deliberately kept their heads down, refusing any honor at all, terrified of being the next one lifted into the light.

But not me.