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Jailed for something he didnot do, Mickey Boy Messina, an associate of the Calabra crime family inNew York City, is paroled after six years and must put his life backtogether. He is caught between a parole officer who wants to catch himconsorting with known members of organized crime so that he can returnMessina to prison, and Laurel, with whom he falls deeply in love onlyto find that she hates his way of life. At the same time he is invitedto join the Calabra family as a man of rank and is close to discoveringwho his father is. Written while the author was in prison forracketeering, this first novel vividly portrays the American Mafia,showing how Messina could live in that ambivalent world of violence andhonor. Girard captivates the reader with his insider's knowledge butneither romanticizes nor denigrates the Mafia's vast power and wealth.He is an accomplished storyteller.
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Sonny Girard was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan but raised in the Red Hook and Navy Yard sections of South Brooklyn: Mob Country. He has spent the greater part of his adult life on the inside of organized crime, not as a hanger-on or sycophant, but as a full time participant.
The target of a three-and-a-half year undercover operation by New York's Organized Crime Control Bureau, Sonny was characterized by the New York Post as "...a middle echelon member" of one of New York's five mob families. His arrest resulted in a three year sentence in State Prison, where he maxed out in facilities like Sing Sing, Dannemora, Downstate, and Arthurkill.
Convicted later of racketeering, under the R.I.C.O. Organized Crime Statute, by Rudy Giuliani's office, and sentenced to seven years in Federal Prison, Sonny Girard again served the maximum time allowed under the law. It was during that term that he wrote the first of his three novels, "Blood of Our Fathers," which was published by Pocket/Simon & Schuster.
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