ornaments
mean town blues
a bluesy neo noir crime thriller pitting an iraq war vet against the chicago mob . br a veteran of the war in iraq where he suffered extreme injury and a refugee from a sad kentucky family history tommy mcclain places his faith in a beat up blue chevy and his future in the city of chicago . hes got a friend there he can count on . br what he doesnt count on is lisa depietro . shes pretty openhearted with dark eyes you could drown in and shes being stalked . in a bar on the el outside her house ; by a big guy in a brown leather jacket . shes seen him in the shadows of his lexus heard him on her buildings speakerphone . hes put notes in her mailbox and shes sure hes even been inside her apartment someones been rifling through her drawers . br tommy figures hell scare the creep off . only he does more than that and the shot from his automatic does more than settle a score . it sets off a gangland war that will catch tommy in the crossfire between two mob bosses and their goons as well as tangle him in police department investigations and the operations of an fbi special task force . br with that shot too a taut suspenseful stalker tale erupts into a craftily wrought unpredictable crime thriller with mob family honor and half a million dollars in cash at stake . snared in the fray tommy has some advantages like his infantry training and combat experience . hes going to need them . because everyone in this mean town it seems wants to take tommys future away from him .