Black Dark: A Hell's Kitchen Story

by Wayne Kernochan

The 80’s were a time of change in Hell’s Kitchen, the mob district of New York City, and author Wayne Kernochan saw much of it from a front row seat. In this sequel to Street My Story, Wayne is clean and sober… until he runs into gangster Jimmy MacDonald. Jimmy takes a shine to Wayne, introduces him to some ‘friends’, and before long they are cooking up some cocaine, as well as another way to make money and move drugs throughout the city. Murder, meetings and mobsters take their toll, though. Soon Wayne is again teetering on the brink of submitting to a life dominated by cocaine, until he gets that life-altering job; one that pays so much money, you know it can only be someone big getting whacked.

At the intersection where Italian and Irish mobs meet, rubbing elbows with the biggest gangster names and families of the day might not be the life Wayne wants. How does one escape, though, after being a wheelman on December 16th, 1985? As the trench-coat and Russian-hat clad passenger rides in the back, Wayne knows this has to be his last job with the mob… that is, if he doesn’t become part of their collateral damage before the end of the day. Black A Hell’s Kitchen Story is a fictionalized account of Wayne’s real life experience.

186 pages, Paperback

Published October 10, 2011