Not Seeing the Stars — Jim Arneberg

Book four in the Jack Falon series chronicles Jack s early years Jack as a teenager is apprehended for car theft a mistake that sets him on a twisted path Forced to leave high school forfeit a college scholarship and given a choice between prison and the military Jack joins the Navy and is sent to Vietnam Along the way his experiences mold the course his life will take He confronts death in squalid dockside bars tastes of whores in port has an affair with a luscious doctor in the sweltering Mekong delta and suffers the carnage and senselessness of war He comes home marries and opens a small restaurant but is beset by Mob parasites that threaten his family and attempt to bleed his business dry He turns to his brother Dan a ruthless freelance enforcer and Jerry Kiley a City Hall political fixer who along with a corrupt police force battle the underworld elements plaguing Jack pulling him deeper into a miasma of corruption and mayhem Not Seeing the Stars is the fourth after Into an Unseen Distance A Long Drop to Eternity and A Man Is What He Hides in the exciting Jack Falon series