ABOUT
THE BOOK

It’s 1945, the war is over and Roscoe Conway wants to retire from Albany’s Democratic Party. But how can the Falstaffian political dealmaker keep the skeletons in the closet while backing out of the room? Every step forward leads Roscoe into the past – to the early loss of his true love and his heroics in World War I; to the takeover of City Hall, the fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor; and to the methodical assassination of the gangster Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond.