Shakedown - Hardcover

Stella, Charlie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933648058 ISBN 13: 9781933648057

Publisher: Pegasus Books, 2006

Synopsis

Get married, have a kid - it's not much to ask. Unless you've got to first divorce the mob. And Bobby Genarro only thinks he has, in this brutal, funny, shrewd new crime novel from Charlie Stella.
For three months now, ex-bookmaker Bobby G has been heading down the straight and narrow. He's got the girl - pretty, and willful, Lin Yao, a videographer with a black belt in karate - and he's bought the ring. He's also safely stashed away a tidy, slightly tainted retirement fund. Then his old boss, a captain with the Vignieri crime family, flips and rats on his Mafioso associates. And Bobby's past begins catching up with him.
"To get down to brass taxes," as the phrase-twisting enforcer Tommy Agro puts it, the family figures it's due, say, two percent of Bobby's take. Intelligent, combative, a bit of a smart-ass, and stubborn, Bobby resists persuasion, even when he's facing Agro's muscle, a former offensive lineman who bench-presses five hundred pounds. Soon, though, Lin Yao is facing an Irish goon free-lancing for the Vignieris, and before you can say the Matt Street Shadows the wiseguys' shakedown is escalating into warfare with a Chinese gang in the heart of Little Italy.
Bobby G has got trouble.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlie Stella is considered one of the rising stars in crime fiction, whose style has been compared to Mario Puzo and Elmore Leonard. Mafiya is his sixth novel. He lives in New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1933648058
• ISBN 13: 9781933648057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288