this story is set in the backdrop on the day the was finished with everyone rejoicing and a young boy who shares the excitement in the streets with his friends. Only going down a alleyway they encounter some men beating up a young lad and are warned never to tell anyone especially their family who were the well known mobster family because retribution is their middle name. Itsd the story of a boy who ends up taking over the family business

"When Nathan Malkin returns to New York from premature retirement in Israel, he comes bearing a heavy baggage of memory -- insistent recollections of his parents' bitter marriage, of the tragic deaths of his wife and only son, and of his strange, guilt-ridden relationship with a deranged, now deceased brother, Nachman. Almost immediately Nathan instigates, and is caught up in, a web of outrageous games and liaisons within the not-so-warm bosom of...