ISBN: 0-9657066-0-5
TITLE: House Of Cards: The
Curse Of Alphonso
AUTHOR: Scarfone, Rocky
DESCRIPTION: A
biography that reads like fiction, winner of the "O Georgia
Award", endorsed by numerous prominent public figures, House Of
Cards delivers the Mafia in a unique manner. After five
generations of blood shed, Rocky is born handicapped, struggles to
walk and be like his .45 carrying father, and, just when he
realizes his goal, loses his father to a bloody Mafia Hit. The
course of events will soon produce the circumstances for Rocky to
become the first to seek an end to his family's long standing
Mafia ties. Rocky will leave home on a 7-year adventure across
America in quest of the meaning of his life, in search of a Father
Figure. Along the way, rocky will experience a host of
predicaments, some funny, others hair raising, until he gathers
the tools, guts and know how to return to NY and get even with the
Mob. Rocky will soon discover himself in the middle of a Mafia
Gambling house, an empty .38 revolver pointed at 30 Mafia
Soldiers, everything, including his life, hanging in the balance.
AUTH COMMENTS: From the day I was born, my life was a
desperate battle for love, purpose and reason. My quest would lead
me to many peoples and cultures, educating me as well as
confronting my own emotions and teachings. I would experience many
of the very same predicaments our Youth face today. Yet, I would
learn from these times in a way that I would not discover until
many years later. It is not simply a Mafia book that I have
authored, but also one of the emotions, circumstances, ways and
beliefs of the many people I met along this journey. My attempt to
write my story I felt the remembrance of the emotion, of the
excitement and of the fear and desperation, as well as of the
Enlightenment and the Education, may reach your heart and mind; my
purpose! I believe that you will fear, cry, laugh, and, at the
end, shed a tear in the Joy of Motherhood and Understanding. Is
YOUR predicament insurmountable? Read my story and learn that all
and anything is possible if you want it bad enough!
EXCERPT: From Chapter 26: "Your father is dead"
The need to overcome thoughts of his father, his Knight In Shining
Armor . . . Who wore a trench coat and carried a .45. . .
. lying in a pool of blood . . . his dying thoughts of his
family, his hopes, his dreams . . . filled his soul with a mixture
of sorrow, revenge and questions.
'Who was responsible?
Salley? Tony Black? Uncle Frank? Genovese? Gambino? The Police?
Shorty? All of them? And how could these people go home and play
with their children? How did they join their families in
celebration that day so long ago? How could they enjoy each
succeeding holiday of family solace and warmth when they had
destroyed the very essence of an entire family? Death could not
be simplified and dignified, especially when there were
others who were mourning that death!
So many thoughts
converged within his novice mind. Revenge was the traffic cop...
he would get revenge. They had stolen his mother's happiness and
thrust Joe-Pep's surviving family into a world of sorrow and
depravity--ending their lives before they began. He'd become
the vagabond left in a wake of cold, hard, silence. Lost in
nomadic journey upon
an endless desert, burdened by a
never-ending avalanche, each step of hope foundering in a lucid,
liquid sand trap. Only to discover relief and succor concealed in
a host of additional questions as soon as truth had been
discovered. "The Family", "This Thing Of Ours", had become a
ravening beast bent upon total destruction, leaving orphans of
society in its quest for life. For a mere child of the storm, it
was he who was left to pick up the pieces. Would he ever? Would he
become the man who avenged the dishonor and sorrow placed upon his
family with total disregard to the repercussions of this
disastrous act of continuing greed?
"YOU WILL PREVAIL!'... But what of Sparticus? What of all those
heroes who battled injustice only to die a glorious death in the
end? Was he ready for that? Like Charton Heston in Ben Hur, would
he return for the ending the hero who rescued his family with
the
assistance of God?
"Oh Jesus, where art
thou now? Come to me and deliver your power to defeat mine
enemies--they abound like a plague of locust. Send to them a
shower of fire and ice! The death of the first born has occurred!
Please let my people go! The trial and tribulation desecrated my
soul! My 'Knight In Shining Armor' is GONE! Will you take up my
cause?"
Was God going to perform miracles of Faith, those
same miracles that had burst his soul
with HIS power to
overcome his handicap? He could not answer those questions, later
maybe, but for now the overpowering need to get even
overruled any further thought. He'd have to leave NY and plan his
action. After the meet, he'd leave once more, only this time, the
desire for a real family, a real father figure, and real
change in his life would clash with
his new plan-- his plan for
revenge and rescue.
REVIEW: Rocky past turns to gold. Fatherless
since he was eight, Rocky left home at the age of eleven. And,
like a Charles Dickens character, he survived through odd jobs and
his wits. (Ernest Hosendolf, Atlanta Journal Constitution, http://youthofamerica.com/quotes.html
)
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