rom the author of the critically

acclaimed best-seller The Pope of

Greenwich Village comes a wild,

funny, tough-talking, big-hearted

novel of the most lovable family

ever to live outside the law.

Between Grandpa Jesse, son

Vito, and grandson Adam, the

McMulien men represent a good

portion of the ethnic groups in

America--Cherokee Indian, Irish,

Jewish, and Italian--bet there s

something "unadulterated" they

all share--what Grandpa Jesse

calls "the criminal gene." And

Grandpa Jesse intends to cap-

italize on it with one last big scam

that will keep them in clover

forever. Although Vito has long

since sworn off playing partner in

Jesse s outrageous schemes,

when he learns that Adam is the

mastermind behind the scam, Vito

reluctantly joins in to look out

for his son.

From the drunken revelry of an

irish wake in Brooklyn to a back-

street bar in Heirs Kitchen, to a

not-so-secure genetic engineering

firm in San lose, Family Business

overflows with streetwise wit,

sizzling dialogue, and colorful

characters that leap from the