This prequel to The Heart of an Assassin takes you to the beginning and exposes you to what made the Assassin who he is. Follow his life as a young boy growing up on the streets of post war Chicago. His carefree innocence is shattered by a ruthless crime family whose rise is determine by the money they steal through extortion.Witness how in an attempt to escape the streets of Chicago his mother returns to Sicily where they are faced with a Nazi occupied city prior to the American and British invasion.A Nazi commandant befriends the boy in order to get closer to his beautify mother. He teaches the boy how to shoot and is amazed with his quick ability to learn and his uncanny accuracy. With every lesson the boys becomes more and more accurate and unwittingly the commandant is giving the boy the hammer to the nails to his own coffin.The boy returns to Chicago seeking revenge but instead falls in love. But once again, life as we know it, is not for the young man and he force do what he does best.The characters come alive before your very eyes and find yourself wanting more and not able to put the book down.The assassin becomes a force to be reckon with and a legend to those in the underworld.