Word: moye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kelly's crew of Mafia godfathers, Irish thugs, federal agents and neighborhood boys reads like a police dossier. There is Butcher Boy, a psychotic neat-freak who lives on steroids, Twinkies and cocaine and who lost count of his kills at thirty men. There is Mary Moy, a pregnant FBI agent determined to uncover the construction conspiracy before a maternity leave takes her off the case of a lifetime. There is Vito Romero, a Mafia man devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter...
...there are many others as well--too many to support the story. While Mary Moy's struggle could make a very interesting subplot, she isn't fleshed out enough to be anything but a distraction in the action. There is also Rosa, a former grocery store cashier who has enchanted Paddy for a decade, but must now decide whether she can live with the life he has chosen. The romance between Rosa and Paddy is a fascinating but short lived device that leaves the reader stranded. Kelly creates some unforgettable characters, but there are also characters he should have forgotten...