White Shadow

“This book succeeds both as a first-rate historical novel and as a superb crime story. It packs the emotional wallop of Dennis Lehane’s  Mystic River . It is as gritty as James Ellroy’s  L.A. Confidential . And yet, the prose is as lyrical as James Lee Burke’s  Crusader’s Cross . With  White Shadow , Atkins has found his true voice.”—Associated Press 1955: Tampa, Florida is a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The death o