Joshua Adam Weiselberg

Broschiertes Buch

Buried Values

The Rookies

Beschreibung

An adventure in Mafia baseball unfolds when almost at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties – with nearly the entire globe manning battle stations – Taddeo Villetti makes it out on to the mound for his first year with the World Series bound Chicago Cubs. And then to take his eye off the ball, Arlene arrives as a new sex-worker in his South Side crime family’s bordello. She is secretly planted there to deliver a stunning victory for the North Side’s Irish Mob and carries the revolver of her distant uncle, the infamous lawman Bat Masterson, with determined intent to bring her own permanent kind of Irish justice down upon the Italians who murdered her parents. But life has a way of throwing some curve balls. As America’s latest immigrants make their first attempt to recreate Cosa Nostra in the United States, a Jewish mob boss attempts to organize both the Italians and the Irish into the country’s largest sports gambling racket which could possibly bring about a lasting peace, but is instead violently derailed by the forbidden romance in an ill-advised affair between Arlene and the Cubs’ rookie pitcher. The young pair are fated to become star-crossed lovers as Taddeo sacrifices all to save Arlene from her life of slavery as a prostitute, with his jealous brothers playing a crippling game to thwart him at every turn. And all this before he ever suspects his obsessed-over love’s true lethal purpose for being there, is to assassinate his entire family. However, nothing can go as planned, when entering into this competition will be Arnold Rothstein, Babe Ruth, and Al Capone - while always fighting to stay alive, will be everyone’s true buried values. And then the signal’s given for the next player on-deck.

Autor

Joshua Adam Weiselberg has been a writer his entire life, the son of an English professor and a Navy commander. His interest and respect for history brought him to love to research and learn ever more about the subjects he is intrigued to write about. Taking it a step further, Josh immerses himself in the action-adventures and has years of experience as a re-enactor in military strategy and combat in the infantry, artillery, on horseback, and on United States Naval ships to specifically include 19th century sailing warships, and an actual F-18 flight simulator. His on-screen performances include frequent outings for westerns, most recently ABC's hit series "Castle," and HBO's "Family Tree," besides documentaries for the Discovery family of learning channels. He frequently signs his books at public events tied into the re-enactments or at historical society meetings where Josh presents his research and demonstrates the alignment between the fiction aspects of his stories, and the facts, by putting them on the actual maps. He loves to interact with his readers in person, as well as online. Josh grew up an avid fan of baseball beyond all other sports and has played the game since childhood up through his current participation in amateur adult leagues. He has visited many professional ballparks but favorite memories include going to Wrigley Field with his grandpa, and marching around many a stadium with his teammates as a Little Leaguer. He keeps a bat, helmet, and gloves in his vehicle at all times for the spontaneous stop at a batting cage while Josh is on the road. Indeed he likes to plot his stories while hitting baseballs as much as while listening to some good rock 'n roll. He is also a fan of intense action-adventure-drama and writes in shocking detail that he hopes appeals to audiences of his favorite entertainment that includes such programs as Hell on Wheels and Sons of Anarchy. Josh's writing pace and style has been likened by his readers to Louis D'Amour's fast action westerns and has assembled a team for BURIED VALUES MEDIA GROUP to include a regular editor with a background with New York's premier publishing houses and a cover artist who's worked on such famous projects as Star Wars and Tomb Raider, adding posters and specialty apparel to the Buried Values product line. He hopes you too will enjoy Buried Values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Buried Values Media Group
• Seitenzahl: 674
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 960g
• ISBN-13: 9780991373260
• ISBN-10: 099137326X
• Artikelnr.: 55468971