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Deep below the city streets, Water Tunnel Three, one of the largest construction projects in American history, will bring pure water from upstate New York to Manhattan. What city planners didn't count on was that the water tunnel project would also bring together the Mafia and the Irish Mob of Hell's Kitchen in a plot to eradicate the unions and increase the bottom line...
More than just a macho mobster novel, Payback centers around two brothers, Paddy and Billy Adare. Paddy is an ex-boxer who just missed Olympic glory and at 32, has spent his life working for Jack Tierney as a mob enforcer. Billy is the first in the family to have left life as a laborer behind to embrace education, a college degree and a sub-urban, green-lawn dream of prosperity...
...Paddy, a destruction of the unions by mob cohorts produces a more deadly dilemma: if he cooperates with the Italians and agrees to bully union leaders into resigning, he will destroy his brother's chances, his family's livelihood and forge an alliance with the Mafia that is potentially lethal. If he refuses, he will be eradicated by the violence that has made him rich. Both brothers are faced with impossible choices and impossible decisions that draw them deeper into the world of the New York underground than a sandhog ever ventured...
...devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter. Of course, there are also the Godfathers: John Tuzio, leader of the Mafia and Jack Tierney, Paddy's boss, the sadistic Vietnam war hero turned Irish mob boss...
Payback reaches its climax when Billy accepts construction work on a mob project site from Paddy, who realizes that for him, it is now kill or be killed. Both brothers are drawn into a death trap that no college education or mob connection can rescue them from...