num_pages: 448
description: On a warm April night in Dallas, a crooked cop and a psychotic drug dealer pay a lethal visit to the bar of Xavier and Min Daniels. Xavier alone survives the night only to be arrested for the murders of his wife and his attacters. The next morning, a retired doctr is thrown to the ground by a car bomb that mangles his home and slaughters his lifelong companion. That same day in Atlantic City, a young Mafioso is gunned down seconds after watching his best friend die in a spray of blood and bullets. Hearing of the attacks on his godfather and childhood friend, Xavier embarks on a quest for vengeance. In order to clear his name and find his enemies, his life will become entwined with a Mafia chieftain's struggle to maintain conrol of his empire, an idealistic and beautiful doctor's efforts to free her people from political oppression, and a nuclear disaster that will affect the destiny of millions. As his search for revenge becomes a fight for survival, he discovers the key of his salvation from long forgotten events in faraway places; the Buckingham Palace of King George V; the muddy trenches of the Russian Front days before the October Revolution; and a mortuary in the heart of Palermo, Sicily. It is in the past that Xavier Daniels, American by birth, Jew by heritage, and Sicilian by circumstance, will find the focus of his rage and the long buried secret of his birthright.
language: English
title: The Armageddon Chronicles: A Mafia Epic
titlecomplete: The Armageddon Chronicles: A Mafia Epic
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Dageforde Pub