Chapter 95

The Italian authorities were alerted to the fact that Antonio Castronova was rushed to the hospital with severe cardiac symptoms. His entire family was at the hospital with him, and he was not expected to survive. When they arrived at the hospital to check on the Don, his wife was crying, his, sons, and daughters were in a panic, and his grandchildren were holding a vigil.

The doctors and nurses were working on him, with everything they had in their arsenal. The police were looking at the monitors and could only deduce that the Don was as close to death as anyone they had ever seen. Then they saw the monitors go to a flat line. The doctors called for the paddles to try to restart his heart. The first and second time did not work. The third time they brought him back. He was still extremely weak and they called for a cardiothoracic surgeon.

One doctor came out to talk to the family. He said to the eldest son, "Your father is gravely ill. If we are unable to get him a