Jimmy Coyle, alias Tommy Dorrman, a Philadelphia boy raised in a family of limited means and education, becomes one of the outstanding pitchers in the American League. Only three people knew the secret of the real Jimmy Coyle and his route to athletic success, wealth, and outstanding war record.

The Counterfeit Lefty

Literature & Fiction

Canfield, Patrick

Genre Fiction

Wasteland Pr

<p>This is the story of Paul Dunn, an Irish boy from Wilmington, Delaware, who grew up in an Italian neighborhood known as Little Italy. Paul became a sergeant in the infantry at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, in 1934. Because of his sadistic ways of handling those under his command, his life was threatened. Eventually he had to make a decision-return to his unit and be killed or go AWOL and begin a life based on a lie. What follows involves intrigue, murder, grief, brutality and the fury of the Mafia.</p>

Decision

This is the story that many people didn't want published. The Tiffany Club in center city Philadelphia was owned by the Mafia. At age twenty-one, Lillian Ricci became the mistress of Mobster Nick DiAntonio. When he opened the Tiffany Club, she became the front person and the Madame of ten of the prettiest and most expensive call girls on the east coast. Bill Whalen worked for Tony Russo, owner of ten prosperous hoagie shops in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and made frequent visits to the Tiffany Club. After a few drinks with his favorite call girl, Whalen told her about the money Russo kept in his house. When this information was passed on to the Mob, Nick DiAntonio quickly robbed the Russo residence of over a million dollars. What follows is a story of a passionate love affair, robbery, blackmail, brutality, retribution and assassinations.

Lillian

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The Counterfeit Lefty

Decision

Lillian