Weepers by Nick Chiarkas
Book 1: Weepers Series
Publisher: Three Towers Press
Publication Date: May 29, 2015
Format: Hardcover - 330 pages
Paperback - 330 pages
Audiobook: 10 Hours
Kindle - 1790 KB
B&N - 330 pages
ISBN (Hardcover): 978-1595983893
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1595983909
ASIN (Audiobook): B01696ZNMI
ASIN (Kindle): B00Y33IYBM
BNID: 978-1595983909
ASIN (Audiobook): B01696ZNMI
ASIN (Kindle): B00Y33IYBM
BNID: 978-1595983909
Genre: Crime Thriller
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Buy The Series: The Weepers Series
Book 1: Weepers
Book 2: Nunzio's Way
Book Description:
If it moves away from you, it’s food. If it moves toward you, you’re food.
The 1957 murder of an undercover cop in a New York City housing project has unexpected ties to the unsolved disappearance of a young father walking home in those same projects with his son, Angelo, on Christmas Eve six years before.
The only witness to the cop killing is Angelo, now 13, while on his way to seek his own revenge in the early morning hours—he is also seen by the killers.
A series of gripping events forge a union between a priest, a Mafia boss, a police detective, and Angelo, a gang member. In the end, Weepers shows us that the courage of the underdog—despite fear and moral ambiguity—will conquer intimidation.
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My Book Review:
In Weepers, book one of the Weepers Series, author Nick Chiarkos transports the reader to the 1950s Two Bridges neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, for an intriguing dark noir crime thriller that will keep the reader guessing and turning the pages.
On Christmas Eve of 1951, seven year old Angelo Pastamadeo and his father Mac were walking home through their Lower East Side neighborhood with a cart full of presents, when Angelo walks ahead of Mac, and when he turns around only to find the cart is there but Mac is gone. Angelo gets scared when he sees a pack of the Satan's Knights street gang walking through the projects, and hurries home to tell his mom Anna that dad disappeared.
Fast forward to 1957, Angelo is now thirteen and is at the age to enter a street gang. Over the years since his father's unsolved disappearance, Angelo has planned to get revenge on the Satan's Knights for his dad's disappearance. Late one night he is a witness to a murder of an undercover cop in the projects by the Satan's Knights who see him, and he knows it's time to start a street gang with his friends so that they can navigate and survive the dangers of the neighborhood from rival street gangs.
Meanwhile longtime neighborhood friends Father Joe Bonifacio and mob boss Nunzio Sabino look into the unsolved disappearance of Mac Pastamadeo, and if his disappearance has a connection to the recent murder of the undercover cop by the Satan's Knights street gang.
In Weepers, author Nick Chiarkas weaves a slow-building and suspenseful dark gritty noir tale that follows the journey of thirteen year old Angelo Pastamadeo as he deals with his guilt over the unsolved disappearance of his father, and learns to conquer his fears and survive the danger of the neighborhood, with the help of his family, Fr. Joe and "Uncle" Nunzio Sabino. Add in the investigation of Mac's unsolved disappearance and the connection to the murder of the undercover cop by Fr Joe and mob boss Nunzio Sapino, and the reader is kept in suspense as the disappearance unfolds with a surpise ending that will simply stun the reader.
The reader is easily drawn into this riveting dark noir crime story with its richly descriptive plot. It is a story that is a tangled web filled with enough drama, secrets, deceit, corruption, motives, suspects, and intriguing twists and turns that definitely keeps the reader guessing until the surprising conclusion.
This was a really intriguing story to read! The author transports the reader to a richly vivid description of the 1950s Two Bridges neighborhood (between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge) where he grew up in the Al E. Smith Housing Projects, for a dark and gritty noir style crime thriller that will keep the reader turning the pages.
This was a really intriguing story to read! The author transports the reader to a richly vivid description of the 1950s Two Bridges neighborhood (between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge) where he grew up in the Al E. Smith Housing Projects, for a dark and gritty noir style crime thriller that will keep the reader turning the pages.
The story provides a fascinating storyline and a cast of characters the engages the reader, suprising twists and turns, and danger around every corner, especially when there are people who don't want the truth to come out. I found myself so caught up on following Angelo's journey of learning to survive the dangers of the neighborhood and the rival street gangs, and Fr. Joe and Nunzio's investigative pursuit of putting the pieces of the puzzle together and solving the disappearance of Mac Pastamadeo. I was absolutely stunned by the conclusion!
Weepers will definitely take the readers on one heck of a thrilling roller coaster ride.
RATING: 5 STARS
RATING: 5 STARS
About The Author
Nick Chiarkas grew up in the Al Smith housing projects in the Two Bridges neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
When he was in the fourth grade, his mother was told by the principal of PS-1 that, “Nick was unlikely to ever complete high school, so you must steer him toward a simple and secure vocation.” Instead, Nick became a writer, with a few stops along the way: a U.S. Army Paratrooper; a New York City Police Officer; the Deputy Chief Counsel for the President’s Commission on Organized Crime; and the Director of the Wisconsin State Public Defender Agency.
On the way to becoming an author, he picked up a Doctorate from Columbia University; a Law Degree from Temple University; and was a Pickett Fellow at Harvard. How many mothers are told their children are hopeless? How many kids with potential simply surrender to despair? That’s why Nick wrote Weepers and Nunzio’s Way— for them.
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