In 1991, John has a good life running the numbers racket In Brooklyn and Staten Island until his mob boss, Louie the Finger, pulls him out with a late-night phone call.
New York state lottery is moving into the mob's turf, so The Finger is shifting business to crack and prostitution.
In his mid-fifties and with no interest in the drug trade, John takes Louie's offer to retire on a mob pension to a tacky South Florida high-rise with his wife, Eleanor.
Cast out of New York and adrift without purpose, John begins to dissipate in the heat.
But Eleanor has other ideas and quietly begins making forays into the Miami underworld with one goal in mind - to develop the perfect crime to help her husband get his mojo back.
Lost Valley Press Bal harbour blues, paperback/john scheinman
