My Ride with Gus

My Ride with Gus by Carillo, Charles. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780671535681.

On New Years Eve, Jimmy Gambar (nee Gambuzza) storms out of Windows on the World restaurant, leaving his uptight girlfriend, her ridiculous gift of a hot pink silk tie, and the diamond blaze of the Brooklyn Bridge behind. At thirty-eight, Jimmys precise, architects life plan has just fallen apart, undermined by his would-be fiancees manic drive to reinvent him. Later that night, trouble hits big...a sleazy downtown bar, a shady lady with a switchblade in his Soho loft, an accidental fall against a metal lamp. Now Jimmy has a dead womans body to deal with, and only one person to turn to: his brother Gus. Driving across the bridge to Brooklyn with a body rolled up in an oriental carpet locked in the trunk, Jimmy has the feeling that Gus is taking him back to sixteenth-century Sicily. "Dont tell me what I dont want to know," says Gus "The Ghost" Gambuzza, whose name is known to every street punk and whose car stays unlocked in his Bay Ridge neighborhood - and untouched, except when kids reverently polish it. But Jimmy has a lot to say, and a painful secret burned deep in his heart that changed his life, and Guss, forever. Long estranged from his family, Jimmys on an all-night ride into his past with a brother who, for all he knows, might save or kill him. Jimmys about to find out once and for all who loves him best.