When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagano settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy, an operatically eccentric group of wise guys become his superiors and he unwittingly finds himself their partner in big-time crime. And when the mob decides to use the kitchen for a murder, nothing Tommy learned in cooking school has prepared him for a kettle of fish like this. When ambitious wannabe chef Tommy Pagano takes a job in his cousin's restaurant in Little Italy, he finds himself in the middle of a Mafia-run business and embroiled with eccentric hoods, an unusual hitman, and the most incompetent wiseguys ever. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. When ambitious wannabe chef Tommy Pagano takes a job in his cousin's restaurant in Little Italy, he finds himself in the middle of a Mafia-run business and embroiled with eccentric hoods, an unusual hitman, and the most incompetent wiseguys ever
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