Chicago Fix: A Tony Alfano Thriller

Detective Tony Alfano #3

by Gregory C. Randall

They weighed eight ounces—separately. Each glove laced tight to the tape wrapped fists of the fighter’s abused hands. In total, they added a pound of weight—eight ounces of death dispensing leather and horsehair. The gloves were there to defend the boxer and prolong the battle. Men died wearing them and men killed using them.

On the Depression racked streets of Chicago, it was hard to tell the good from the bad; hard to discover the truth among the lies; and especially hard to find an uncorrupt politician.

It was Detective Tony Alfano’s job to uncover a place to start.

248 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 31, 2018

About the author

Michigan born and Chicago raised, Randall has made the San Francisco Bay Area his home with his wife for the last 45 years. A graduate of Michigan State with a degree in landscape architecture, Mr. Randall has 45 years of community design and urban planning experience. He has his own design firm, Randall Planning & Design, Inc., and has designed hundreds of residential, commercial and retail properties throughout the western United States.

Mr. Randall has enjoyed writing for many years but it has become a serious vocation in the last twenty years. His books almost always have an historical component and often reflect how the past has impacts on the present. Randall has developed all the cover cart for his books as well as the interior design, graphics, and overall formatting. This also includes ebook formatting.

Greg is the author of the five book series, The Sharon O’Mara Chronicles. The six book in the series is under development.

He is also developing the third book in the Detective Tony Alfano thriller noir series set in 1933 Chicago. The first book in the series, Chicago Swing, won the Silver Medal in the 2016 Global Ebook Awards. The second, Chicago Jazz, is now available.

His edgy young adult novel, Elk River, has won acclimation and awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and Northern California Book Publishers Association (BAIPA).

Mr. Randall and his wife have their own independent publishing company, Windsor Hill Publishing. He is a book cover designer and artist and is well versed in the ebook conversion process. All of his books are available through the usual sources.

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Reviews

[Laurel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun book to read. It brought back memories of stories I had heard growing up about boxing and the Golden Gloves program. Also the stories of beat cops in their day. I did not like the abrupt ending of the read. It literally, just ended. I did find one glaring historical error. Coke was available in green bottles just past the late 1960's. It was also available at soda fountains, and machines that poured out cups of soda. There were no cans of Coke when Prohibition ended in Chicago.

[J.D. Schechter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well done

Tough and gritty, with believeable characters and a good plot, but marred by the author's total ignorance of firearms and ammunition