Chapter Four Ledgers and Bullets

Danny went back to Carlo carrying a wire and a forged recording suggesting Vito was working with the FBI. Carlo was suspicious, Vito was violent, and they turned on each other in a family meeting. That night Vito died in his own car. Ethan heard the news in his father's bar and sat silent. He had once thought revenge meant killing Vito with his own hand. Now he understood a higher revenge: making an enemy's family pull the trigger. The FBI noticed. Special Agent Laura Keane traced cash through cleaning companies and clubs. She was neither corrupt nor stupid. She saw a young snake swallowing Brooklyn. "Russo isn't a regular gang," she told her superior. "He's building structure."