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A story of sex, murder, mayhem, betrayal, love and character. In 1954, John DiSilva is born to the marriage of a strip dancer from the bayous of New Orleans and a hit man from the Mascone Mafia family. Influenced by the body enhancing drugs imbibed by his mother, Johns early days are complicated by his bisexual physical development. His father constantly and severely abuses him and his mother. Finding his father beating his mother again one day, John puts an end to their torment by using his fathers shot gun to kill the man. Now in the state juvenile delinquency program he is recruited into the Mascone family. A Capo and his bodyguard befriend John and teach him the ways of the trade. John rises through the ranks to become the preeminent assassin in the family. He is sent to France to execute a wayward police captain, whose homosexual driver, Sergeant Trout, vows to revenge the death of his lover. John runs afoul a Corsican thug who turns John to the police. Mascone issues a contract on John to insulate the family from the French difficulty. Johns boss, Sal Rico, allows his protégée, whose native language is French, to escape. On the airplane to Paris, John meets Adrian, a bargirl who works in a gay bar in LaHarve. John s association with Adrian results in a solution to Sergeant Trouts search for the killer in an unexpected manner.