I've Already Met The Devil

An epic tale, based on factual accounts, of a first generation family of Sicilian immigrants who come to America to escape the poverty, strife and corruption which have strangled their native land for decades. They settle in Southern Colorado, far from the teeming tenements of New York and the East, seeking the promised prosperity offered by the industrial giant John D. Rockefeller and his behemoth steel mill. Despite the back-breaking work and a sky never clear from the choking dust and soot, they find happiness, until tragedy strikes and their world convulses. They must turn to the eldest son, when barely in his teens, assumes the heavy burden as family head, only to be corrupted himself by the very same people who drove his parents from their idyllic Mediterranean village. La Cosa Nostra, the Black Hand, has come to grip their new hometown tighter than ever. Yet they fight as never before to remove the clutches of the Devil, only to face a fierce new enemy which threatens to destroy the country they have grown to love. The second son answers the calling to fight in Europe and does so with honor, returning a reluctant hero to find, once again, his family being torn apart by the Mafia scourge. Can they rise up to cast off the Devil in his pin striped suits or will he bring them into his inescapable lair? A story of death and despair overcome by courage and conviction and loves lost and found. I've Already Met the Devil is filled with true to life characters and events woven with great care into a memorable literary triumph.