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In 1950, unlikely friends Vinny Vesta, a tough Sicilian Hell's Kitchen gang leader, and Sidney Butcher, a brilliant Orthodox Jew, are caught in the crossfire when Gee-gee Perone, a ruthless mobster, plots to eliminate the other mob bosses to transform himself into the capo di tutti capos, in a novel based on a pivotal episode in Mafia history. Reprint.
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"It just may be the perfect summer book."—New York Post One a Sicilian Hell's Kitchen gang leader, the other a sickly but brilliant Orthodox Jewish boy who lives next door, Vinny Vesta and Sidney Butcher meet on a fire escape during the blistering New York City summer of 1950. Their friendship develops over the course of a summer that will change Vinny's fortunes forever, at a cost he could never have imagined. Based on a true story, Mafia Summer brilliantly captures a pivotal moment in Mafia history and in the lives of the teenagers caught up by the Mob.
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