Lake Tahoe, 1973: Michael Satariano -- who as a young man
fought the Capone mob in Chicago -- has reached a
comfortable middle age, with a loving wife at home, a
talented teenage daughter in high school, and a son earning
medals in Vietnam. Now running a casino for the mob, Michael
thinks he's put his killing days behind him -- after all,
he's made a respectable life for himself and his family . .
. and plenty of money for the boys back in Chicago. So when
godfather Sam Giancana orders him to hit a notoriously
violent and vulnerable gangster, Michael refuses. But when
the hit goes down anyway, Michael is framed for murder; to
save his family, he must turn state's witness under the
fledgling Witness Protection Program.
Relocated to the supposed safety of Paradise, a
tract-housing development in Arizona, Michael soon finds
himself facing a wrath so cruel that even the boy raised by
a hitman father is unprepared. And with his teenage daughter
in tow, Michael must return to the road and a violent way of
life he thought he had long left behind.