Center Street

by Leonard Wise

A fictional story based on a true incident about a group of teenagers who take on the mob in Hudson, New York. Brooklyn gangsters infiltrate the small, historic, and idyllic river city and set up illegal gambling and prostitution. The teens' carefully planned assaults etch away at the Godfather's ability to keep control, and ultimately force the mob to talk a truce. One of the teenagers wants an immediate war with the mob and sets out to start it - causing a deadly and terminate confrontation.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Leonard Wise has been published by Doubleday, Bantam, St. Martins Press, Hastings House, and Holloway, as well as in foreign countries including England, France, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil, and Japan. He is also a professional Ghost Writer, having completed four to utter satisfaction.

Born and raised in Hudson, New York, Wise spent three years in the 82nd Airborne Paratroopers. After service, he received his F.C.C. Engineering License and worked in radio for a few years before studying writing at the New School in Manhattan.

With 59 film options on all of his material, including novels, scripts, short stories, plays, and film treatments, Leonard has become one of the Option Champions of Hollywood.

He has received many grand reviews on his novels, but one of the best of all time came from Publishers Weekly which said of The Big Biazarro – “The Pages Almost Turn Themselves.”