Author Description

This is the riveting story of a family living through a time when the ruthless Purple Gang was losing its grip on Detroit city streets, a time when gunfire reigned and gang leaders stopped at nothing in their quest for absolute power. This is an unlikely love story between two kids whose life events are steeped in the history of a city full of violence and corruption. This is the story of The Schvitz Bathhouse, where mobsters hung out and planned heists, liquor runs, extortion, murders and more. This is what it was like to be there.