Good Reading

Here are three books by one of my favorite authors Sonny Girard, he really knows how to pull you into a story. Also check out the links to the side for his My Space page and his new website which is under construction at tis time.




With razor-sharp honesty, Sonny Girard, an ex-mobster himself, tells the story of “Mickey Boy” Messina, just paroled from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and in love with his brother’s ex-girlfriend, Laurel, a complication on his road to becoming a “made man” in the Calabra Crime Family. Mickey Boy’s mother, Connie, carries a secret of an affair that could cost her son his life. Chrissy Augusta, a top mobster’s teenage daughter, walks a dangerous tightrope with a secret lover from another Cosa Nostra family. All three affairs collide with tragic results in the midst of a bloody mob war.



From Little Italy social clubs to mob bedrooms, BLOOD OF OUR FATHERS is a tale of intimacy, loyalty and betrayal in the underworld – an underworld caught up in a war that threatens the life of everyone associated with it. Three love stories in a mob setting rather than a mob story, BLOOD OF OUR FATHER portrays family secrets, authentic organized crime politics, and bloodshed that crackles with vivid detail.

“An authentic thriller from a mob guy who’s obviously been there.” --Nicholas Pileggi, author “Wiseguy/Goodfellas”

"Girard captivates the reader. He is an accomplished storyteller."
—Literary Journal )

"Girard shines as a storyteller."
—Publisher’s Weekly



Snake Eyes

Small-time mobster Neil DiChristo is a happy-go-lucky bookmaker who prefers wine, women, and good food, not necessarily in that order, to any serious work or crime. One morning he is dragged out of his house by a team of FBI agents who have put together enough false information to throw him in prison for life and mark him as an informant to get him killed. All they want, they say, is for him to get close enough to a Russian operative to bring him down. It seems the only chink is the Russian’s gambling habit, and DiChristo’s credentials in that area give him the greatest chance of gaining the supposed spy’s confidence. With no good option available, he reluctantly agrees.

From the opening page, Neil DiChristo is catapulted into a bizarre world of intrigue, murder, and more sex and romance than is healthy for anyone—where nothing is as it seems and his fate is beyond his control. All Neil wants is to be left alone.

Fat chance.

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"Sex and romance, mobsters and spies. What more could a girl ask for?"
—Kim Delaney, actor, NYPD Blue (ABC TV)

"Sonny certainly knows all the players, and when it comes to this kind of book he’s as good as anyone."
—James Caan, actor, The Godfather, Vegas (NBC TV)

“An authentic thriller from a mob guy who’s obviously been there.” --Nicholas Pileggi, author “Wiseguy/Goodfellas” (about Blood of Our Fathers)

"Girard captivates the reader. He is an accomplished storyteller."
—Literary Journal (about Blood of Our Fathers)

"Girard shines as a storyteller."
—Publisher’s Weekly (about Blood of Our Fathers



Not since Mario Puzo’s Godfather has a novel so passionately captured the soul of organized crime as did mob insider Sonny Girard’s astounding debut, Blood of Our Fathers. Now Girard brings us the extraordinary successor, an explosive drama of the changes rocking the American Mafia…


In one swift stroke, an assassin’s bullet elevated Mickey Boy Messina from foot soldier to boss of the Calabra Crime Family – and left him with a legacy of pain and confusion. Now Mickey Boy is walking a delicate line, caught between the thrill of a power he never dreamed would be his, and Frank Halloran, a rock-hard parole officer determined to bring him down; between Don Peppino Palermo, a treacherous old Sicilian boss scheming to change the face of New York’s organized crime, and Laurel, Mickey Boy’s smart, sexy, no-nonsense wife. For her sake – and for the sake of Hope, the baby daughter he prayed for to end his line of mob inheritance – Mickey Boy is filled with a new ambition: to lead his people away from their criminal tradition and into the legitimate world. But in a dark society laced with misplaced trusts, and peppered with sudden and violent revenge, the road into daylight has always been paved with blood and sorrow…





“Sonny’s works bring me back to the gritty street life I also left behind. His jail scenes are so clear they make me shudder as I return there.”

-- Christopher Gambino, Author (My Only Son, Passionate Kiss)



“Vividly portrays the American Mafia…Girard captivates the reader with his insider’s knowledge…He is an accomplished storyteller.”

-- Library Journal