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Vince Luca is the quintessential high‑school kid advocating a normal life, yet his father is the head of a crime syndicate. His friendships, family drama, and school pressures are tangled with the weight of criminal influence. When Vince falls for a girl whose father is an FBI agent determined to dismantle the family he unknowingly belongs to, he must navigate the dangerous divide between loyalty and justice.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Crime Fiction/Organized Crime
Authors: Gordon Korman
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