Chapter 39
PART ONE
Genesis
1
At a table in Jerry's Pizzeria 2 in Oriolo Romano the Wilde Beasts of Abaddon were holding a meeting.
Their leader, Saverio Moneta, aka Mantos, was worried.
The situation was critical. If he didn't succeed in taking back command of his sect, this might very well be the last get-together of the Beasts.
They had been haemorrhaging for a while. The first one to leave had been little Paolo Scialdone, aka The Reaper. Without a word, he had dumped them and become part of the Children of the Apocalypse, a Satan-worshipping group from Pavia. A few weeks later Antonello Agnese, aka Molten, had bought a secondhand Harley-Davidson and joined the Hell's Angels from Subiaco. And to top it off Pietro Fauci, aka Nosferatu, Mantos’ right-hand man and founder of the Beasts, had got married and opened a plumbing and heating supplies store on the Abetone.
They were down to four members.
It was time to give them a serious talking to, tell them to get their shit together and pull in some new recruits.
‘Mantos, what are you having?’ asked Silvietta, the group's Vestal. A scrawny redhead with bug-eyes sticking out beneath thin eyebrows
