Pawns in the Game

Pawns in the Game is a historical fiction novel set in the mid- to late-twentieth-century Philadelphia. It follows the life, from birth till death, of a boy named Donnie McCullough, an Irish American who immigrated from Ireland in the 1940s and ended up losing both of his parents in a very tragic manner.

After a family friend adopted him and his younger two siblings, their new stepfather turns out to be the head of one of the Sicilian crime families out of Eastern Philadelphia. Donnie grows ...