I like the subject of what-if scenarios as far as your coup in America idea. Right now I have two mob centered stories, being 13 both are based on games. one is a saga surrounded the Gambetti family from GTA 4 and the other is about Mafia but from morello's point of view.

I do have an idea that is very early in development, the pen hasn't been put to paper yet. Basically its about a mobster who takes over a family and strives to run it by the guidelines once followed in the old days such as banning drugs and actually following the Mafia 10 commandments. He brutally kills anyone in the fmaily with a history in drugs and other activities he views unsavory and begins the new era of the family but soon finds that the mob has changed and that today's mafioso aren't very willing to accept the guidelines of the older mafia traditions and are more bound by greed than the honor that was once part of Cosa Nostra life.