- Sal Narducci
Salvatore 'Laughing Sal' Narducci is a fictional character in
Mark Winegardner 's novel "The Godfather Returns ".Biographical summary
He is born in
Cleveland, Ohio ; future mob bossVincent Forlenza is his childhood best friend. As an adult, he runs half of thegambling rackets in Cleveland. By 1931, he and Forlenza have killed off the competition and become the most powerful gambling syndicate in theU.S. . By the 1940s, he is feared for his temper; he is known to stab people in the back (literally and figuratively.)By the early 1950s, Narducci is growing suspicious of Forlenza and starts plotting against him. In 1955, he orders a sachel containing a bomb delivered to a plane carrying
Nick Geraci ,Frankie Falcone , andTony Molinari . Falcone and Molinari are killed in the explosion, but Geraci survives. Narducci visits him in a private hospital and tells him that Forlenza was behind it.In 1956, Geraci finds out that Narduci is a spy for
Michael Corleone , and goes to Forlenza. Geraci and Forlenza plot to kill him andHyman Roth , thereby strengthening theChicago Mob and destroying the Corleones' operation inCuba .By 1959, Narducci is lured to a meeting in
Sicily and ambushed by Geraci and several others. They hang him from the top of a cave and leave him there.
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