A Long Drop to Eternity — Jim Arneberg

Jack Falon is a figurehead, nolonger the president of the corporation he built. He has lost his lucrativerestaurant business and is recovering from the wounds he received at the handsof his Mafia tormentors. He emerges from the hospital stranded and alone,abandoned by his wife for the violent turn his life has taken. With nowhere togo, he establishes a residence with his late brother's common-law wife andsettles in to let himself heal. But the sexual current radiating from his deadbrother's consort complicates the relationship. Jack becomes torn betweenyielding state's evidence under the unflinching pressure of an ambitious copand heeding the threats of a ruthlessly corrupt member of the Chicago police force. He is dragged backinto the brutal underworld that he formerly inhabited and becomes entangledwith the leader of a vicious street gang. He finds himself unable to keep hiswoman and her children from sitting in the crosshairs of the Mob, gangbangers and the corrupt police.A Long Drop to Eternity is the second after Into an Unseen Distancein the exciting Jack Falon franchise. A Man IsWhat He Hides is the third in the series.