History records that the Chicago PD never solved Chicago's crime of the century, the 1920's murder of crime boss, Big Jim Colosimo, Al Capone's predecessor. Twenty-two years later, Charlie Whitehorse, a hospital security chief, progressively cracks open a panorama of Blackstone family secrets that could mean solving the crime and/or saving lives. During his search for trut History records that the Chicago PD never solved Chicago's crime of the century, the 1920's murder of crime boss, Big Jim Colosimo, Al Capone's predecessor. Twenty-two years later, Charlie Whitehorse, a hospital security chief, progressively cracks open a panorama of Blackstone family secrets that could mean solving the crime and/or saving lives. During his search for truth, Charlie's exposure of the interwoven Blackstone roots leads him deeper into the mystery. The Blackstone brothers, John and Jake, are inextricable bound together in the soil of their mother's farm. Their rutted relationship has played out through two generations, embroiled their wives and threatens their children with a reality created by the four parents in 1920. Charlie's understanding of the life of Mr. Bougainvillea, a patient in Charlie's hospital, is one key in the murder investigation and a path to altering the Blackstone children's fates. Framed by the historical events in a war-worried 1942, Charlie Whitehorse battles self-guilt and conspiracy to unravel the labyrinthine Blackstone intrigue winding from Gangland Chicago, through a Warrior's Fantasia and the BumBoat, to Guadalcanal. Until the end, Charlie doesn't know if his investigation will send someone to the gallows------or if he can save lives.