Synopses & Reviews
Collins chronicled the gripping story of one young boy's travels with his gangster father in the New York Times bestseller Road to Perdition, then led his readers along the unforgettable Road to Purgatory—a tale of this same boy, all grown up. Now, in his most powerful work to date, we again meet Michael Satariano and travel with him as he faces the most difficult and heartbreaking struggle of his life.
Lake Tahoe, 1973: Michael Satariano—who as a young man fought the Capone mob in Chicago—has reached a comfortable middle age, with a loving wife at home, a talented teenage daughter in high school, and a son earning medals in Vietnam. Now running a casino for the mob, Michael thinks he's put his killing days behind him—after all, he's made a respectable life for himself and his family . . . and plenty of money for the boys back in Chicago. So when godfather Sam Giancana orders him to hit a notoriously violent and vulnerable gangster, Michael refuses. But when the hit goes down anyway, Michael is framed for murder; to save his family, he must turn state's witness under the fledgling Witness Protection Program.
Relocated to the supposed safety of Paradise, a tract-housing development in Arizona, Michael soon finds himself facing a wrath so cruel that even the boy raised by a hitman father is unprepared. And with his teenage daughter in tow, Michael must return to the road and a violent way of life he thought he had long left behind.
In this stunning third installment of a trilogy so gripping and masterfully written that it could only come from "[among] the finest crime writers working today" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), we once again have a spellbinding window into a time of heroes and villains—and, above all, a journey along a road on which a man's greatest crimes are all a part of his lifelong struggle for redemption.
Synopsis
As a young man, Michael Satariano fought Capone's gang in Chicago. Now in comfortable middle-age, he runs a mob casino in Lake Tahoe, with a loving wife, a teenage daughter, and a son earning medals in Vietnam. The year is 1973, and he believes his killing days are behind him. But the bosses have other plans. And when he refuses to do a hit ordered by resurgent godfather Sam Giancana, Michael finds himself framed for murder—and forced to disappear into the government's fledgling Witness Protection Program to keep his loved ones safe.
But there is no escape from the life he left behind. And when history tragically repeats itself, Michael takes to the road once more, with his daughter in tow, to seek vengeance.
Synopsis
Running a casino for the mob in the early 1970s, former Mafia hit man Michael Satariano refuses an order to kill a particularly violent mobster and is subsequently framed for the man's murder, a situation that forces him to place his family in the hands of a fledgling Witness Protection Program. By the author of Road to Purgatory. Reprint.
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About the Author
Max Allan Collins is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller historical thrillers. His other books include the New York Times bestseller Saving Private Ryan and the USA Today bestselling CSI series. His comics writing ranges from the graphic novel Road to Perdition, source of the Tom Hanks film, to long runs as scripter of the Dick Tracy comic strip and his own innovative Ms. Tree. Collins is also a screenwriter and a leading indie filmmaker in his native Iowa, where he lives with his wife, writer Barbara Collins, and their son, Nathan.