Dante Gentile, a carpenter, is quietly proud to have served in Vietnam. 20 years later, he faces psychological warfare on the home front. His son, Junior, is off fighting the Gulf War. He suspects his wife of infidelity. His teenage daughter is a mystery to him. His father, a WWII veteran, is becoming increasingly embittered.Set in an Italian-American community in Brooklyn, Killing is not a murder mystery or a mob epic. It focuses on family and its central theme. Adherents of political correctness are warned to stay away."We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do." - Francis Bacon