Mafia Summer

In 1950, unlikely friends Vinny Vesta, a tough Sicilian Hell's Kitchen gang leader, and Sidney Butcher, a brilliant Orthodox Jew, are caught in the crossfire when Gee-gee Perone, a ruthless mobster, plots to eliminate the other mob bosses to transform himself into the capo di tutti capos, in a novel based on a pivotal episode in Mafia history. 75,000 first printing.