Jim Cirni, a first generation Italian-American, drew inspiration for his mafia crime thrillers from his roots in Brooklyn, New York. Cirni served as a paratrooper in the 82nd United States Airborne during the late 1950s and spent the following forty years working in public accounting, writing novels in his leisure. He passed in 2004.
The owner of a Queens supper club popular with mobsters becomes the patsy in a gambling swindle that could spark an underworld war.