A debut novel of lost innocence, justice, ambition, and family follows twelve-year-old Nunzio Paradiso who, while at Paradise Salvage, discovers a secret in the trunk of an abandoned Pontiac that will change his life forever, and enlists the help of his father’s renegade cousin, an ex-cop with a sketchy past, to find the truth, which leads Nunzio on a strange and dangerous journey. 20,000 first printing.