An organized crime family pursues a vendetta against a Neapolitan cop in this hardboiled crime novel. After his father was killed by the mob family known as the Camorra, Giancarlo Lo Mantos mother moved them both from New York back to the family home in Italy. Now a tough homicide cop in Naples, Lo Mantos personal life once again intersects with the Camorra when they bait him into returning to New York by kidnapping his niece Paula, whos studying in that city. The author also wrote the bestselling book sleepers, and served as a writer/producer for the TV series LAW & ORDER.