Unravel the Secrets of The La Rue Crime Family

BOOK 1:

Conquest

Henri La Rue is a family man in Paris in the late 1950s, a man who manages the day-to-day of the family business, with all of the accompanying complications and headaches. An uncle who is still his titular boss, a wife whom he butts heads with, a son who is a bit of a knucklehead, a daughter he never sees, employees who don’t always listen — Henri La Rue is an everyman in many ways, like you or me or the man next door.

That is, if you or me or the man next door ran whorehouses and casinos, and put out money on the street as a loan shark. That is, if you or me or the man next door broke the legs of the recalcitrant or murdered rivals, enemies, really anybody who got in the La Rue family’s way.

BOOK 2:

POWER

Henri La Rue is a mob boss who still isn’t really in charge of the family business. The titular head of the family is his Uncle Gerard, and the complications caused by that relationship continue to grow and tangle. But there is more than that, more family, more issues.

Because, whether he likes it or not — and he doesn’t like it — both of Henri’s children have joined the family business. He had been against his son Guy performing anything more than tangential mob duties, but time and circumstances changed all of it and brought the son in to work for the father. And if he had been anti-Guy, Henri had been even more dead-set against his daughter Clarice, a financial whiz, getting within a mile of the La Rue family business. Yet, here she was — involved and successful. And Henri didn’t know how to feel.

The exploits of his children tugged at him. The infidelity of his wife infuriated him. A new series of problems with the rival Levine gang family tested his judgment. And through it all, the physical decline of his Uncle Gerard made Henri question exactly what the future might hold for him.

BOOK 3:

RIVALS

As the family unravels, how can Henri La Rue restore order?

Henri is the day-to-day head of the La Rue crime family in Paris. His uncle Gerard is technically the boss, but Henri is the one who really makes things go. It had been understood by everyone, for years, that once Gerard finally died or stepped away, Henri would inherit the throne. It had been understood until a series of complications began to tear away at all of those assumptions.
Complications. That is what the third book in this series is really about — complications, rivals, and how Henri chooses to attempt to restore order, to repair a succession plan that had begun to fray.