An epic family saga of the jazz age, when bathtub gin flowed, flappers were everywhere, and organized crime ruled the streets Greg Meister was a farm boy who went off to war...and when he came back, everything was different. He meets Tandy Crain, a rich girl gone bad, in a Harlem jazz club, and falls in love. Together, they build a family and an empire, their lives dangerously entwined with music, the stock market and a ruthless mobster named Al Capone. It was a love built on dreams in a country built on promise. But when that promise is violently broken, Greg and Tandy must fight for their family's survival in a brutal new country. Previously published under the title By Friends Betrayed under Ardie's pseudonym "Richard O'Brien."
An epic family saga of the jazz age, when bathtub gin flowed, flappers were everywhere, and organized crime ruled the streets Greg Meister was a farm boy who went off to war...and when he came back, everything was different. He meets Tandy Crain, a rich girl gone bad, in a Harlem jazz club, and falls in love. Together, they build a family and an empire, their lives dangerously entwined with music, the stock market and a ruthless mobster named Al Capone. It was a love built on dreams in a country built on promise. But when that promise is violently broken, Greg and Tandy must fight for their family's survival in a brutal new country. Previously published under the title By Friends Betrayed under Ardie's pseudonym "Richard O'Brien."
