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"It was one of those Irish joints, a spot where you sucked down tap beer from paper cups, got loaded, then pulled chicks under the boardwalk. At night, if you got lucky, you could watch JoJo fistfight off-duty cops. Like JoJo and Dante, Jimmy was nineteen, and he loved every hour of every day of each week of his life." As adults, Dante O'Donnell followed his dead father into the police force; Jimmy Burns, closer than a blood brother, went along. JoJo Paradiso's future was preordained: He would be, first, an underboss in his father's crime family, eventually stepping into Salvator Paradiso's shoes. When Detectives O'Donnell and Burns are assigned to get the goods on JoJo Paradiso, it can't be a simple matter of cop against crook.
About Robert Leuci
A narcotics detective in New York City for more than twenty years, Robert Leuci is the author of several books including BLAZE and ALL THE CENTURIONS. He was coauthor with Bob Daley of Prince of the City, an biographical book about Leuci's time as a New York City cop and his involvement with the Knapp Commission and Rudolph Guliani.
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| Binding | EAN | ISBN-10 | Pub Date | PAGES | Language | Size | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 9781559213486 | 1559213485 | 2010-01-01 | 0 | 0.00 x 0.00 x 0.00 in | $12.95 |
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