In an era where the crack of a baseball bat mixes well with bloodied streets and fluttering money, the novel fastalino will panic your senses while the characters experience the decade of excess, the roaring twenties. the fastalino family immigrates to america with two brothers, franco and joey fastalino. they each choose different paths in american society to achieve their ultimate goals while testing their loyalty to each other. one brother's dramatic swing allows the other to learn that the chase for the fast life is thrilling until you run out of breath.ralphy baldano, a mafia mastermind, uses his traumatic experiences as a blueprint to shape his life and values. through his years, he develops deep connections with the most powerful men of new york before becoming the master. giuseppe fastalino, the father, helps the deeply connected ralphy develop the greatest racket in mafia history at the height of prohibition in the 1920s. needing to protect their interest after higher mafia powers figure out their cash-rich monopoly, fastalino and baldano team up with other powerful figureheads to pioneer the vision of organized crime. criminals might exploit and create rackets as their livelihood, but when everything is connected together, the biggest racket ever created is society.