Staten Island

The "Roaring Twenties" - World War I has ended. Britain's Atlantic Fleet boxing champion Hugh Crawford is discharged and makes his way back to Staten Island in search of the girl he met during a brief war time liberty there. To win her, he fights his way from poverty to wealth and power in the violent, bloody world of loan sharking, gambling, bootlegging and prostitution. A world where both friends and enemies are made! The Thirties - "The Great Depression" grips the land. A time of hardships for most, but not for Cathy Connors, a singer who is Hugh Crawford's daughter, nor for Chuck Stacey, the young band leader who discovers her. With help from her father, but always under the threat of gang retaliation, Cathy and Chuck climb to the heights of stardom. The Fifties - World War II is over. Television begins to dominate the entertainment world and Las Vegas is born. Las Vegas - where Mobsters, High Rollers, Hookers and Hired Guns intermingle. Where bodies are sometimes found in the desert. Where the story of Hugh, Cathy and Chuck Stacey comes to an unexpected conclusion. In Tinsel Town lingo, STATEN ISLAND is "The Godfather" meets "New York, New York" offering the reader a high powered, exciting look at a time when the underworld and the world of show business came together.Wylly, Phillips is the author of 'Staten Island ', published 2000 under ISBN 9781589399013 and ISBN 1589399013.