Big Foot And Other Strange Beasts

This book opens with the discovery of two young womens bodies in shiba park. Against the wishes, detective minami is assigned to the case, and as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realizes that his own past and secrets arev indelibly to those of the dead women and their killer

This book traces the Mafia’s beginnings from an underground patriotic society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sisily, through the group of Italian immigrants – the Black Hand – Who savagely tore control of New York’s waterfronts away from Irish racketeers, to the Mob which went on to run organized crime throughout Italy and America. Drawing on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research, William Balsamo – great-nephew of the first godfather – and George Carpozi Jr. trace the Black Hand’s coalescence into an organization whose insidious influence reached across the Atlantic and into a presidential administration. And they go behind the headlines to reveal with chilling clarity the true extent of the Mafia’s influence today.

For Jones Harper, being in show-business means money, fame, a beautiful wife, and a lead role on the London stage. For Stephen C. McQueen, it means a disastrous career playing passers-by and dead people.

This book is a delightful reminder of how much acting we all do in the name of love.