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Overview
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 foreordained: He would be, first, an underboss in his father's crime family, eventually stepping into Salvator Paradiso's shoes. So Jojo is now a criminal who walks the Queens streets freely and doesn't worry about the law. 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. In their world, there is no black and white - only gray. There are tearing conflicts, greed, a choice among betrayals. And there are secrets that, once out, could rip apart the friendship that since boyhood has been vital to the existence of both Dante and Jimmy.As kids, they took on New York's mean streets. As men, they're on opposite sides of the law. Dante O'Donnell and Jimmmy Burns took up the oath, the badge and the gun of the police force. Jo Jo Paradiso took a different path as a rising player in the Paradiso crime family. Today the three friends are trapped in an ever-more-vicious game of betrayal--one that threatens to break much more than the bonds of their youth. Martin's Press.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Former cop Leuci presents a hard-boiled tale of childhood friends who find themselves on opposite sides of the law. (Aug.)Denise Perry Donavin
A fence jumper is a mafioso who turns against his family or a police officer who turns against his creed. There are plenty of both in this bullet-ridden novel about three young men who grow up to work on opposite sides of the street, as it were. Jojo Paradiso follows his father into the Sicilian American family business, chafing at the parental injunction against peddling drugs. Dante O'Donnell follows in his late father's footsteps as a New York City police officer, with one serious exception--he refuses to take bribes. Their buddy Jimmy tries to stay loyal to both old friends, with disastrous results. Filled with the nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes action of both the police department and the criminal world, Leuci's novel shows characters walking a tightrope of friendship and crime.Book Details
Published
May 1, 1995
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Pages
338
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312130732