A fantastic book one that is a historical fiction in Brooklyn that follows Butchie from his own neighborhood from the 1950s through the 1970s fighting in Vietnam, his family, and the local crime family. His partner on the force is Eddie Curran from Belfast. The author will take you on a journey through each one of their life’s up to their meeting. Then you are still in for a treat as they are on a mission to take down the local crime boss.
Once you begin this book you will not want to put it down for the author has made these characters jump off the pages and become ingrained into your mind as you are reading. It is like I was listening to one of my older uncles from New York telling me stories from the back then when he was alive and drove his black Cadillac in the Bronx and no one touched it.
You follow both Butchie and Eddie from their childhood to their marriage beginning their time with the force and then working together. Over time they become in touch with a task force that wants to take down the mafia as well. The problem is that they are being funded by congress, who has a congressman being paid by the mafia. Now Butchie and Eddie must take them down protect their families and cover their own asses. The way this story works and keeps going from one page to the next is great and also, I like the way Butchie picks up men and uses them to get into a door. Overall this book and all of the characters are fantastic and I cannot say enough good things about it. Most definitely a book worth reading.