<p>It all started with a horse race in picturesque Palermo, Sicily, but this wasn&rsquo;t your typical race with rules designed to protect the horses, jockeys and bettors; this was a Mafia sponsored street race, a blood sport free-for-all more suited for the Coliseum than the backstreets of the Sicilian town. Race promoter, Santos Luzzato, nephew to Nicky The Mushroom Fungo, wanted in on his American Uncle&rsquo;s horse racing connections with the LA triads. The race leads to a series of decisions that end with a suspicious car accident that kills billionaire heiress and race horse owner, Josephine Somersby Murphy, sister to the Governor of California, Samuel Somersby, a man with Presidential ambitions and ties to Johnny Luck, LA triad big shot.&nbsp;</p><p>Love, sex, murder, and race horses create a toxic mix of intrigue and suspense that drives Luck&rsquo;s prot&eacute;g&eacute;, Jesse James, to Sicily, Argentina, England, and Switzerland in her pursuit of the truth. Who killed Josephine Murphy? Was it Luzzato, Nicky Fungo, Murphy&rsquo;s brother, the Governor, or was it someone closer the Jesse.&nbsp;</p><p>Palermo, a place to die.</p>