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The Seeds We Sow

by Alan B. Gazzaniga

267 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0345; ISBN 1-55369-532-1; US$23.50, C$26.75, EUR19.50, £13.50

This book is a sequel to my first novel, "Seeds For All Seasons", a medical thriller. The Santori Empire is threatened by internal dissent and FBI informants.

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About the Book

In Gazzaniga's first novel, "Seeds For All Seasons", Timothy Graves, while a student at Harvard Medical School, donates his sperm in an effort to supplement his meager income. after completing his training he stays on at Harvard and becomes a world-reknown neurosurgeon. After his only son dies of a cerebral aneurysm, Tim learns that his sperm was used without his permission for artificial insemination. As he tries to track down his offspring, he discovers that they all have died of cerebral aneurysms, all of them, that is, except the son of the notorious Boston organized crime leader Tony Santori. Tim operates on the gangster's son and saves his life, but subsequently Dr. Timothy Graves and his girlfriend are killed in a car crash.
"The Seeds We Sow" is a follow-up to "Seeds For All Seasons" and explores the complexities of the ethnic groups that are so much a part of Boston. Sean Connors, a Southie crook, wants to wipe out the Italian gangsters, especially Tony Santori and his brother Gianni. To this end he is willing to act as an FBI informant. As the Boston Police Department and various government agencies close in on the Santori empire, the threat of Sean Connors in addition to the Santoris' nephew, who has become a government witness against his uncles, brings things to a head. "The Seeds We Sow" uses familiar characters and introduces new faces to continue the saga of betrayal and corruption within and outside of organized crime.

About the Author

Alan B. Gazzaniga was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Glendale, California. He went to Glendale High School where he excelled in sports and academics. He entered Dartmouth College in 1954 and subsequently became an academic All-American football player. He graduated from Harvard Medical school in 1961 and received his cardiac and pediatric heart surgery training at the Peter bent Brigham and Children's hospital Boston Mass. His great grandfather immigrated from Italy and was a shoemaker in Marlboro, Mass. where Alan's father was born. His dad became a colon and rectal surgeon in Los Angeles and founded the Ross-Loss medical clinic in 1932 with seven other doctors. Alan's grandfather on his mother's side was a well known and pioneer plastic surgeon in Los Angeles. Alan built a large practice in Orange County specializing in pediatric and adult cardiac and thoracic surgery. In 2000 he was voted the outstanding physician of the year. He currently is retired and lives in Santa Ana, California with his wife Sheila. They have four children and three are physicians and the other is studying for her Ph.D. in English literature at Cornell. This is Dr. Gazzaniga's second novel. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of California, Irvine.
Visit the author's website at www.DrGazzaniga.com.

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INTRODUCTION

Tony "Lefty" Santori headed Boston's most notorious crime family. Along with his brother, Gianni, he had influence in commerce, politics, and law enforcement.
In short, Tony was a powerful man, both feared and revered by the citizens of the city. Lately, however, he seemed to be losing his grip on his business and on his personal life. All wasn't well in Tony's world.
Paulie Strata was Tony Santori's right-hand man. He took care of all the pesky details that cropped up in a business like theirs. Known as a "handler", Paulie prided himself on being able to handle anything asked of him. Lately, though, Paulie felt over-worked and under-appreciated. Having slaved so long for Tony, he sometimes felt like the tail wagging the dog.
Lenny DeGrazie, or Fat Lenny, was the son of Tony and Gianni's only sister. Lenny was fat, lazy and stupid... and dangerous to the Santori organization. Paulie warned Tony repeatedly to keep Lenny out of the family business, but Tony insisted Paulie take Lenny along whenever a job required a little extra "muscle". In Paulie's opinion, Lenny was a loose cannon who could very well destroy all he...okay, they had worked for.
As for Lenny, he was sick and tired of being known as Fat Lenny, the Santori's idiot nephew. He had some ideas of his own and it was time he tried them out.
Maria Santori was Tony's long-suffering wife who knew her place in Tony's life. After finally producing a long-awaited son, their marriage settled into a comfortable routine. Even after the murder of her father and her son's accident, Maria felt secure in her marriage and her family.
She felt secure until Tim Graves was killed, and then Maria cracked. Now, locked away in an institution, not even Tony can break through her self-imposed exile.
Despite his mother's illness, Joey Santori was on top of the world. A superb athlete, he was the star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and on the brink of an unparalleled baseball career- a career nearly cut short by a blow to the head by a hard-hit ball. Thankfully, the extraordinary skills of the medical team at University Hospital saved Joey's life. He was now fully recovered and back playing baseball.
But there were problems for Joey that seemed to be getting worse every day. How long could he keep looking the other way when his dad's name appeared regularly in the local paper?
Meanwhile, at the Medical School, Dr. Luther Kennedy, was embroiled in a scandal involving his Department Chairman. Luther's brother Patrick, a homicide detective for the Boston Police Department, was assigned by Chief Danny Rastellini to investigate the death of one of their officers while awaiting a heart transplant.

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