Pizzeria owner Alphonse Lucci is a pussycat who likes to pretend that he’s as tough and deadly as the mobsters he romanticizes. But Streeter really is. So when a greedy, ruthless bad-ass tries to strong-arm Alphonse into selling his restaurant to nail down the last piece in a crooked land deal, Streeter steps in to protect the likeable old man…and gets sucked into a deadly scheme that could leave them both totally, and very gruesomely, dead.
Tough, authentic, and right on the money
Studded with Elmore Leonard—like oddballs. And straight-ahead Streeter is at least on a par with those other one-namers—Parker and Hammer
A classic hardboiled novel filled with beautiful women, dimwitted thugs, and a private eye who is too cocky for his own good…a lot of fun