Cosa Nostra: The Truce

As we all know, the Irish and the Italian Mafia have been pitted against each other since time immemorial (as Ms. Brewton amply demonstrates in her O’Keeffe Family stories) and the Bittettos and McCaffereys of Cosa Nostra: The Truce are definitely not the exception to this rule. At each other’s throats competitively in business both legal and black market, and literally in nearly continuous episodes of violence that do not scruple to affect members of the immediate families, the Italian vs. Irish war rattles on in its bloodshed. Until: a truce is suggested. If Ty Bittetto, newly returned from Italy, will wed businesswoman Camille McCafferey, the two families will let up on their unending war. Or so it seems on the surface, but when it comes to crime, the surface is just that: a façade. The truth that lies beneath will be much more horrid, for both families. And this is just the beginning of the end.