Ace Boon Coon

<p>It’s 1950s Illinois and Elliot Caprice has returned to his rural Southville homestead to help his uncle save the family farm which is struggling through a drought. As racial tensions between agricultural workers rise a murder pulls Elliot back to Chicago when his ties to both Jewish and Negro organized crime factions are discovered during a clash of competing interests around the development of the long-awaited Chicago campus of the University of Illinois.</p><p>When pressures from federal agents representing Estes Kefauver’s Special Committee on Organized Crime along with the Nation of Islam wealthy white potential investors and a shadowy force called the White Circle League close in Elliot must race to connect a money trail to two more murders to thwart the destruction of Southville—before forces combine to destroy Elliot.</p>