The Chieftains of South Boston (The Mahoney Family Saga Book 1)

(Book 1 in a 3-Book Series)How much are we defined by the place where we grow up? And how much can we defy those forces?For Matthew Mahoney, those questions are more than mere musings. They produce intense and dangerous results when he returns home to get married.He escaped South Boston at the age of fifteen, but his two older brothers never left. They are both at the top of their respective games--politics and the Irish Mafia. Senator Jimmy Mahoney has stayed on the right side of the law. On the wrong side is Francis, who has used his connections in the FBI to decimate his main competition--Boston's Italian Mafia.As different as the three Mahoney brothers are, one thing they have in common is a dislike, even hatred, for their father. At the wedding, family fireworks go off in spectacular fashion, and it's Francis who lights the fuse. A knock-down, drag-out fight leads to an incident later that night that sends the whole city of Boston into turmoil.An intense, seven-day drama creates the ultimate test for the brothers: how to be loyal to family, to friends, and to a place called home. Read more