Sugar of Lead

Almer John Davis. Stoneagle Books, $22.99 (351pp) ISBN 978-0-7388-5206-5

The young heirs of a pair of Korean gangsters are raised together in California, along with the son of an Irish mobster, in Almer John Davis's Sugar of Lead, an uneven cross-cultural thriller with mystic overtones. Michael ""Sugar"" Pierce has always considered it his duty to look after his Korean comrades especially the beautiful Katherine. But when the body count spirals out of control, he settles on an even more arduous task: to fight for peace.

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