For I Have Sinned: 2 (Emmett Casey Chronicles)

Mick (Little Mick) Casey a tail gunner in WWII comes home from the war a hero in everyones eyes but his own. Scarred by the horrors he has witnessed Little Mick does what many returning veterans do in order to cope-he learns not to feel. Stepping back onto the civilian streets he assumes the perception of normalcy. He marries has a family and tries to make a life in inner-city Chicago.A poignant tale of how a fathers inability or unwillingness to heal creates a love-hate relationship with his son sending the child down a steep path of loneliness and self-destruction.For I Have Sinned continues the saga of the Casey clan intensely loyal and devoted but only to each other. Set against a backdrop of war violence and crime it weaves the history of an ill-fated childs transition from a lonely inner-city rebel and decorated war veteran to a man who looks all too familiar to him a man like his father-all earned the hard way.