Black Widow
A Novel
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
In this riveting follow-up to Mafia Summer, Vinny Vesta's torrid affair with his co-pilot's widow brings him, unwittingly and unwillingly, back into the family business. The only question is whether he can escape it again, with his life. Black Widow is a gripping page-turner that brings to life the decadent bachelor-pad living of the Blue Angels, old-Hollywood grandeur, and the maneuverings of Genovese as he takes over the Luciano crime family and alters the face of the New York Mob.
PRAISE FOR MAFIA SUMMER:
"Sweet, affectionate, and bloody: a glance backward to a well-spent youth."--Kirkus Reviews
"With its pedigree, it just may be the perfect summer book."--New York Post, "Required Reading"
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Unbelievable characters and implausible situations undermine Vincent's second novel, set seven years after the events in his debut, Mafia Summer (2005). Lt. Vinny Vesta Hell's Kitchen gang leader turned maverick fighter pilot is enjoying the summer of 1957 stationed at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station pursuing the three Fs: fun, flying and fornication. But his hedonistic existence is temporarily sidetracked when a fellow aviator is killed while practicing formation aerobatics over the Atlantic. Ordered to shepherd the remains to the deceased pilot's wife in California, Vesta is shocked when he encounters a redheaded femme fatale, Caitlin Pennington, who, instead of expressing grief for her recently deceased husband, invites Vesta into her bed. After a torrid affair, Vesta begins to feel the wrath of Pennington's overly protective father the powerful lawyer for a Los Angeles mob boss who will do anything to keep his daughter's budding Hollywood career on track. Featuring such real-life mob figures as Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in peripheral roles, Vincent's newest isn't so much a down-and-dirty gangland thriller as it is an unlikely love story with crime-fiction underpinnings.
