Ground Lions

Danny Martin was just a little kid living in the old neighborhood when Mike Amato first joined the police department. Twenty years later, the little kid had grown to be a mob wannabe whose bullet-riddled body is found in a high school parking lot. With only a whispered clue from the victim's lips, homicide boss Mike "Ace" Amato begins a search for the killer. The search points homicide boss Lt. Mike Amato in the direction of three organizations that might want to see Danny Martin dead - The FBI, the Mafia, and member of the city's police department. As the investigation moves forward, Amato is drawn back into his old neighborhood, renews a faded romance, and learns of his own family's ties with organized crime. Ground Lions, the second in a series of Mike Amato mystery thrillers, brings the reader to the realization that most people are not who - or what - we assume them to be. As in life, Ground Lions teaches us that friends are not always friends and that enemies may sometimes become the allies we need