Sleep Not, My Child: A Ross Duncan Novel (Ross Duncan Novels)

Sleep Not, My Child is set in Chicago and St. Paul in 1934, shortly after the end of prohibition and during the time of the Public Enemy. To help an old friend, Ross Duncan participates in the kidnapping of a wealthy financier. Yet, he quickly learns that the financier is in on the kidnapping and he has been set up to be arrested. Together with his remaining partner and a seductive teenage girl, they escape the arriving law enforcement officers. No longer sure who he can trust, Duncan meets secretly with John Dillinger and joins forces with Special Agent Trestleman, both to secure his own safety net and to help him save a 9 year old boy, Wilson, the stepson of the financier. He continues to have to sidestep his way among his old adversaries, the Italian and Irish mobsters and has to deal with the corrupt O’Connor System where criminals have to pay off city officials and the cops. Duncan needs to track down his betrayers yet he cannot shake off his violent past and his decisions and actions, which are heavily based on his code of honor and dedication to friends, lead to terrible consequences. Will Duncan, who continually puts his life in danger, rescue the boy and find the redemption he longs for? This is another fast-paced and violent story of Tommy guns, beautiful women and deadly betrayals with Ross Duncan as the laconic but world weary bank robber, haunted by conscience, the murder of the woman he loved and who is looking for a chance at moral redemption from his life of crime and sin but somehow never finding it. A noir thriller where cops have to be paid off and no one can be trusted. Can Duncan beat death from the Irish and Italian mobsters and save the life of the boy, finding the redemption he so craves?