The Ghost of Silk City: A Novel

Cappy is a mobster and former prizefighter serving a life sentence as he recounts his rise and fall to an inmate who has committed a heinous crime of negligence, and no longer wants to live. Their conversations form a moral counterpoint: one man's accidental crime against Cappy's lifetime of deliberate violence. After a sudden detour from the streets to the jungles of Vietnam, Cappy yearns to leave the world of violence behind and embrace his young family, if only he can avoid the pull of his former life and the evidence buried beneath it. This thriller marries the classic crime genre with historical fiction, set in a volatile time when the country struggled with an unpopular war, the end of Jim Crow, racial tension, and a tidal wave of organized crime. Cappy's chosen to answer the bell one last time, in a fight to repair the corrupted mind of his broken friend. A final deed. A stony man. A good story.