The Bad Life
(2026)(The third book in the Blood Ties: Rise of the Mafia series)
A novel by Chris Thorndycroft
New York, 1917.
An Irish gang is gunning for Charlie Lucania. Blaming him for the murder of their boss's son, the Irish want him on a slab. The only way for Charlie to stay alive is to stay one step ahead of the game.
But Charlie has problems at home as his strict Sicilian parents strongly disapprove of the path he has chosen in life. As he struggles to reconcile his street life as an up-and-coming hood with his duties as a son, his parents begin to despair as their son slips into la malavita - 'the bad life'.
The Bad Life is an 17,000-word novella which continues the story of the American Mafia from its humble beginnings in the early 20th century.
Genre: Historical
An Irish gang is gunning for Charlie Lucania. Blaming him for the murder of their boss's son, the Irish want him on a slab. The only way for Charlie to stay alive is to stay one step ahead of the game.
But Charlie has problems at home as his strict Sicilian parents strongly disapprove of the path he has chosen in life. As he struggles to reconcile his street life as an up-and-coming hood with his duties as a son, his parents begin to despair as their son slips into la malavita - 'the bad life'.
The Bad Life is an 17,000-word novella which continues the story of the American Mafia from its humble beginnings in the early 20th century.
Genre: Historical