Hard Time

Omerta--the Mafia's sacred vow of silence and secrecy. Hardened mobster Tommy Roma does fifty years behind bars for this very concept after witnessing his boss Mr. Spirochete commit a double-homicide and taking the blame himself for the grisly murders. Now fifty years later Roma is unleashed upon 21st Century America. A classic fish-out-of-water tale Hard Time is about a man who has trouble assimilating into 21st Century America. Gritty darkly comic and suspenseful Hard Time takes place in the same universe as Jack Bristow's Saturday Evening Post short story Joe's Coffee Shop published in 2016 and Going To The Mattresses published in Mystery Weekly Magazine.