Seventh Street Books
Featuring: Myra Banks; Johalis; Jersey Leo
223 pages ISBN: 161614887X EAN: 9781616148874 Kindle: B00ILSXLNQ Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Jersey Leo tries to stay on the clean side of the law.
However, when his childhood
friend Aaron Gravey asks him to share his last meal before
his execution, he finds
that Gravey has a favor to ask as well. In BLIND MOON ALLEY
written by John
Florio, it is 1931, and Jersey feels the pressure of helping
a close friend who
came across some bad cops, which is the reason he is facing
death by execution.
For shooting one himself.
Jersey is an albino who grew up being bullied in school for
being different.
His childhood friend who had his back growing up has asked
him to help out
another classmate of theirs Myra. Gravey was arrested for
shooting a corrupted
detective and now his partner, Reeger is hustling Myra for
payments. It is up to
Jersey to help find Gravey when he somehow escapes before
execution with the
plans to take out Reeger himself. Myra was a cripple when
Jersey last saw her,
but years later she is a different woman who now seems
happy, except for
Reeger's threats when payments are not received. Jersey has
to figure out who he
can trust, and learn which friends still have his back as he
tries to stay on the
right side of the law when it seems the law is corrupt.
John Florio's BLIND MOON ALLEY is a well-written novel that
accurately
exhibits the voice of that era. As someone who loves to
occasionally read novels
set in the past, I enjoy a really solid one that you can
almost feel the atmosphere
of the setting through the descriptions given. The
characters are easily likable
and each page came with the surprise of "Not seeing that
coming"! I totally enjoyed
reading BLIND MOON ALLEY and look forward to Jersey's next
adventure.
It's Prohibition. It's Philadelphia. And Jersey Leo doesn't
fit in.
Jersey is an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on
the street, he tends bar at a speakeasy the locals call the
Ink Well. There, he's considered a hero for having saved the
life of a young boy. But when his old grade school buddy,
Aaron Garvey, calls from death row and asks for one last
favor, all hell breaks loose.
Jersey finds himself running from a band of crooked cops,
hiding an escaped convict in the Ink Well, and reuniting
with his grammar school crush--the now sultry Myra Banks,
who has shed a club foot and become a speakeasy siren.
Through it all, Jersey tries to safeguard the Ink Well with
no help other than his ragtag group of friends: his
ex-boxing-champion father, Ernie Leo; the street-savvy
Johalis; a dim-witted dockworker named Homer; and the
dubious palm reader Madame Curio. With them, Jersey digs for
the truth about his friend Aaron Garvey--and winds up
discovering a few things about himself.
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