The Last Made Guy

They killed Vincent Rima outside the Trident and called it business. His thirteen-year-old son called it inheritance. Sent to Italy by his mother, Giuseppe "Giuspi" Rima learns the old world before it can swallow him. He is Black and Italian, American and foreign, a child in rooms where men have spent lifetimes learning when to bow. At fourteen, he makes his first kill. At seventeen, he returns to Boston with a crew, a ledger, and a plan that has nothing to do with mourning. Giuspi will not waste his life chasing every man with a gun. He will take the structures beneath them-the ports, clubs, unions, debts, judges, routes, and families-one block at a time. He will become the boss of bosses by understanding the lesson older men never learn: power belongs to whoever can survive being underestimated. Then he falls in love with Annabella, the only person who can reach the man beneath the calculation. Their marriage gives him a home, a son, and a vulnerability every enemy can see. When love becomes leverage and the next Rima begins keeping a ledger of his own, Giuseppe must decide whether legacy is a kingdom, a curse, or the weapon already pointed across his table. THE LAST MADE GUY is a brutal transatlantic crime saga about fathers and sons, race and belonging, loyalty and betrayal, the warmth hidden inside a cold man, and the price of owning everything.