Game of Pawns - (Gino Ranno) by Louis Romano (Hardcover)

About the Book

The Bronx streets are getting increasingly narrow as different nationalities of mob families are fighting for more than their fair share of illegal, money-making activities. First, Gino had to stand down Colombian drug lords, then Albanians, and now Russians, who think they can muscle their way into Gino's territory in a high stakes GAME OF PAWNS.

Book Synopsis

The head of the biggest NYC crime family, Carmine Miceli, Jr., is taken in on racketeering charges. His life-long friend, Gino Ranno, is forced to become the head of the family he has so desperately tried to keep at arm's length in this 3rd book of Louis Romano's Gino Ranno, mob series (FISH FARM, BESA).

The first order of business: The Russian mob. Infringing on the illegal profits made on the streets through prostitution, insurance scams, and the drug world, the Russians are also engaged in harvesting young, female body parts, through surgeons who are secretly on their payroll, to be sold onto the black market to the highest bidder.

As Gino and the Albanian mafia join forces to end these brutal murders, a well-to-do American family find themselves in a quandary when their college-aged son is in desperate need of a kidney transplant and they are offered one for a price. How far will they go to save their son?

Drawn into their high stakes game... A GAME OF PAWNS ... Gino soon comes to the heart-pounding realization that his life and a slew of people he's known for years are dependent upon him to keep them safe and any of his decisions now will determine whether he, his friends, and associates live or die.

The Gino Ranno series: The streets of NYC are getting increasingly narrow as the different nationalities of mob families are wanting more than their fair share of illegal, money-making activities. In FISH FARM it was the mafia vs the Colombian drug lords, then in the 5-time award-winning BESA the Albanians start an inner mob war when one of their own is shot during a drug deal gone bad, and now the Russians, who think they can muscle their way into Gino's backyard.

Louis Romano's extensive hands-on research for GAME OF PAWNS has been compared to a Patricia Cornwell novel for its accuracy

Review Quotes

"Romano updates Mario Puzzo's The Godfather for the 21st century weaving a story of family, blood, and power. It'll grab you, and you'll think twice about the knock on the door" - Tj O'Connor, award-winning author of Dying to Know, Dying for the Past, and Dying to Tell