SmalltimeBest selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You're a writer what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting but with a difference, for the small town mob, which