The Devil Is Waiting, a Chicago Crime Thriller by Gregory W. Beaubien: Paperback
The Devil Is Waiting, a Chicago Crime Thriller by Gregory W. Beaubien: Paperback
Billy Roper and his uncle think robbing a truck full of gold is their big chance. But if the cops and the mafia don’t catch them first, The Devil Is Waiting.
Billy, a young ex-con, is haunted by his past, but he hopes for a second chance at life. His Uncle Berg, a small-time career criminal, is desperate for one last score. Late one winter night in 1985, they set out to hijack a truck carrying a fortune in gold coins on Chicago’s Lower Wacker Drive.
A mafia crew led by Berg's old nemesis Vinnie Tomasello has just stolen the coins from the apartment of a wealthy physician. Berg's plan is to rob the robbers, and get even with Tomasello in the bargain.
The consequences of the hijacking will echo for generations. Decades later, after Billy is released from prison for the second time, his nephew Gary, a privileged college student, pressures him to return to crime—just as Berg had done in ’85.
In flashback, we see Billy’s grandfather Jacob fighting with the U.S. Marines on the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal during World War II, and the event that injects an inescapable fate into the family’s male bloodline.
The long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed 2014 novel Shadows the Sizes of Cities, Gregory W. Beaubien’s The Devil Is Waiting thrills with its tight plot, lean prose and vivid imagery.
This complex drama of human desperation will keep readers turning pages, and wondering about the role that fate plays in all of our lives.
Trade paperback $15.95. 242 pages. [ISBN 978-0-9911816-4-3] Published by Moresby Press.