No Evil Star

Recovering addict and Nam vet, Milo, is resigned to his spartan life as caretaker of St. Margarets cathedral in 1989 Manhattan. Guaranteed perpetual employment by Monsignor Aloysius, an old WWII comrade of his dead father, Milos life starts to unravel when ex-CIA friend Dave goes off the deep end. Not only is Dave the heist man whacking drug dealers in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, hes also hatching a hare-brained scheme to plunder Brooklyn mob boss Nunzios treasure trove of paintings and objets de art recovered from the Nazis at the end of WWII -- which is conveniently stashed in St. Margarets cellar. Complicating matters is ex-Viet Cong Yuen -- a man with a very personal grudge against Milo and Dave -- now working for the Hong Kong Triads. When he arrives in the Big Apple to do business with two-timing underboss, Carmine, throw in hotheaded rehab priest Father Culkin, single mother Marie trying to stay straight, Nunzios homicidal daughter Sarah, Milos best friend, writer Jack, and you have a recipe guaranteed to erupt into an out-of-control urban holocaust. "Chris D. has performed in his own bands, directed his own movie and written books, from Japanese film studies to volumes of his own poetry. Now he has written a crime novel, just another facet of the multi-faceted inside of his head. Some people can do one thing -- Chris can do almost anything." -- Mary Woronov, (author of SWIMMING UNDERGROUND, NIAGARA, BLIND LOVE and SNAKE)