Fence Jumpers

"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.

Robert Leuci of Saunderstown, RI ROBERT LEUCI is a former New York policeman whose experiences as an under cover detective during the Knapp Investigation of the seventies were told in RobertDaley's bestselling book, Prince of the City, and the movie made from it. Leuci subsequently has written several books of his own including All the Centurions, Captain Butterfly and Odessa Beach. He lives in Rhode Island, near Providence.