The return of the Shamus Award-Winning private eye novel by the author of the box office smash 'Road To Perdition'! The third volume in the Nathanial Heller 'Frank Nitti Trilogy', featuring the real-life mobster played in the film by Stanley Tucci!
From a foxhole on Guadalcanal (shared with Barney Ross) to the glitzy underworld of Hollywood in the '40s, Nate Heller fights his memories and the Mob. Something happened at the Canal, something Heller's blocking out. What he can't block, though, is the wound he received - the million-dollar wound, the one that got him home.
Back in the States, and back in Chicago, he becomes involved once again with Frank Nitti during the gang boss' last violent days, and with the gangland attempts to take over the movie unions. The homefront is every bit as violent as the war-torn Pacific, and even the solace of Sally Rand can do nothing to ease Heller, who is haunted by the death of a friend in Guadalcanal, and surrounded by the mayhem of gangland murders.
