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Christian Cipollini

Christian Cipollini

About

Christian Cipollini is an award-winning author, organized crime historian & comic book writer/creator.
He can be seen as an ‘expert’guest commentator for television series “Gangsters:America’s Most Evil" and consulted on National Geographic's "DRUGS, Inc."

Cipollini's latest project is the highly-anticipated true-crime comic book series 'LUCKY' - which takes readers through the life and times of Charles "Lucky" Luciano.
 

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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Metro Times

🔗 http://blogs.metrotimes.com/index.php/2013/08/diary-of-a-motor-city-hit-man/

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Oakland Press

🔗 http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2013/08/03/news/local_news/doc51fd7faab0d4a669675056.txt

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Reviews

<p><span>&quot;The story of Chester Campbell Wheeler is a story that needed to be told and Christian Cipollini is the perfect author to tell it. Cipollini spins a taut and compelling tale of one of the nation's most interesting and dangerous underworld figures of all-time.&quot;</span><br /><span>-<span>     </span></span><span><i>Scott M. Burnstein, author of </i></span><span><i>Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit</i></span><br /><span> </span><br /><br /> &quot;Christian weaves an intoxicating and truly gangster tale about a real life hit man who was in the trenches of the underworld in Detroit during the cities peak years in crime. Take a journey with Chester Wheeler Campbell and see how those involved in the life lived, breathed and existed. An amazing true crime story.&quot;<br />  - <i>Seth Ferranti, author of Rayful Edmond: Washington DC's Most Notorious Drug Lord</i><br /><br /><span>&quot;I almost felt like I knew the mobster while I reading. Christian Cipollini captured the true gangster essence of Campbell&quot;</span><br /><span>-</span><span><i>Mafialife Chris, MafiaLife.com</i></span><br /><br /><span>Author Christian Cipollini has done it! Not only is his book about hit man Chester Campbell a rare, untold account of a gangland assassin it also is a vivid read which takes the reader into the Detroit underworld of the 1970s with all its colorful characters.</span><br /><span> <i>- David Amoruso of Gangsters Inc.</i></span><br /><span> </span><br /><br /><span>&quot;Author Christian Cipollini carefully collects all the facts in the The Chester Wheeler Campbell case, a Detroit hitman who is discovered one cold February night in 1975 after a near head-on collision with an on-duty patrolman in Orchard Lake. The patrolman searches Campbell's care and finds it littered with weapons, guns, drugs, cash, and meticulously detailed assassin's notebooks with names from many unsolved murders. Cipollini recounts all the gruesome events in grisly detail, you can almost hear the deep-voiced narrator and chilling background music.&quot;</span></p> <div> <div><span><i>- Katherine Montalto, Metro Times</i></span></div> </div>