Road to Purgatory by Max Allan Collins

Road to Purgatory by Max Allan Collins

It's 1942 and - from the Atlantic to the Pacific - the world is torn apart. Ten years ago Michael O'Sullivan accompanied his gangster father on the road, fleeing from the mobsters who killed his mother and young brother. After an idyllic upbringing by loving adoptive parents in a small Midwestern town, Michael is now deep in the jungles of Bataan, carrying a tommy gun like his father's, fighting the Japanese. When brutal combat unearths deep-buried feelings of violence and revenge, Michael O'Sullivan returns to the homefront, a battle-scarred veteran of twenty-two, ready to pick up his old war against the Chicago mob. Suddenly, Michael Satariano must become one of the enemy, working his way quickly up to the trusted side of Frank Nitti, Al Capone's heir, putting himself - and his soul - in harm's way. Leaving behind his heartbroken childhood sweetheart, the war hero enters a limbo of crime and corruption - his only allies: Eliot Ness, seeking one last hurrah as a gangbuster; and a lovely nightclub singer playing her own dangerous game. Even as Michael embraces his father's memory to battle the Mob from within - leaving bodies and broken lives in his wake - he finds himself sucked into the very way of life he abhors. In a parallel tale set in 1922, Michael O'Sullivan, Sr., chief enforcer for Irish godfather John Looney, is about to become a father. The bidding of Looney - and the misdeeds of the ganglord's crazed son Connor - put the happy O'Sullivan home at risk. Both Michaels reach a crossroads of violence and compromise as two tales converge into the purgatory of good men trapped in bad lives.

MAX ALLAN COLLINS was hailed in 2004 by Publisher's Weekly as a new breed of writer. A frequent Mystery Writers of America nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, he has earned an unprecedented eighteen Private Eye Writers of America nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991).

MARCELO SALAZA is a Brazilian comic artist. He began his career as a visual artist in 1995, doing adult comics in Brazil. After that, he worked as an illustrator for newspapers in his hometown, Rio de Janeiro. Past work includes Grimm Fairy Tales: Day of the Dead, Trancers, Empress, Logans Run and the Millarworld Annual 2017

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ISBN 13	9780997832303
ISBN 10	0997832304
Title	Road to Purgatory
Author	Max Allan Collins
Series	Perdition Saga
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Brash Books
Year published	2016-10-18
Number of pages	324
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