PRIVATE ENEMY: Growing Up with the Candelabra Mob

by Richard W. Jennings

A fictionalized account of the true story of the second son of a Second City mobster now serving four concurrent solitary confinement life sentences plus 25 years in a federal prison in the Midwest, a punishment generally reserved for international terrorists rounded up after 9/11. Bullied by his father both as a child and an adult, the younger Candelabra served as his father's trusted bookkeeper for 40 miserable years. Ten years later, both the mob and the FBI are continuing a frantic but unsuccessful search for the senior Candelabra's missing millions in cash and diamonds. Only two men alive know where it is. One man is in lock-up forever, so has nothing to lose by refusing to talk. The other is the private source for this book.

189 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 8, 2011

About the author

Richard Jennings was born and raised in Tennessee. After attending Rhodes College, he moved to Kansas City where he co-founded a popular book store, Rainy Day Books, where his books are always in stock.

Mr. Jennings lives in Overland Park, Kansas, with his wife and family. “He has five children, four grandchildren, a dog, a cat, and a parrot” (as seen on the cover of his books).

He has written novels, short stories, essays, articles, children’s activity books, has made several professional appearances, is a literary judge, and he continues to publish new works.