The true story of a group of four boys brought up in New York's notorious Mafia-run "Hell's Kitchen" during the 1960s. After nearly causing a man's death, they were sent to a reformatory where guards routinely brutalized them, leaving them with nothing but an undying loyalty to one another.[...]
"Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story."
--The Washington Post Book World
"A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley."
--The Atlanta Journal & Constitution
"In his [...]
In 1943, in Naples, Italy, a handful of abandoned children, left behind in the bombed-out city and armed only with a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own courage and ingenuity, join forces with Corporal Steve Connors, an American soldier cut off from his unit, to take on the German Army [...]
Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant saga of American murder, forgiveness, and redemption. Born in the midst of tragedy [...]
In this thrilling novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra--the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Sleepers, Gangster, " and "Midnight Angels--"organized crime goes to war with international terrorism in the name of one man's quest for revenge.
My name is Vincent Marelli, though most people call me [...]