Day of Reckoning

First published in 1955, Day of Reckoning by Ralph de Toledano, author of Seeds of Treason, is a novel based on the 1943 assassination of Carlo Tresca, an Italian-American newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s.

The murder of an idealistic anarchist prompts an inquiry by Paul Castelar, an honest newspaperman and a veteran of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.

He is drawn in by Gina Farrel, the murdered man’s niece, who comes to him convinced that the same political gangster who killed her uncle is now after her…

A gripping read!