![]() ![]() Spanning three decades and two continents, soaked in passion, blood and the garish colors of the mean streets, Lowdown is a vivid, gripping romantic thriller that follows a twisting road strewn with sorrow and desire, deceit and ecstasy, shocking violence and intimate tenderness, to arrive at a surprising, bittersweet redemption. If Lowdown were a meal, it would be powdered grits and biscuits, made in a prison cafeteria, a breakfast that looks and tastes like wet cardboard, and you probably wouldn’t want to eat it. ![]() ![]() And sometimes the mistake is crazy, forbidden love like the one between Jimmy and Milena. This week Anthony Schneider writes about Lowdown, his new novel just published by Permanent Press. For Jimmy Paccini, savvy and cool-headed, it was joining the Brooklyn mob, the easy way out of a nowhere life that for arranging the execution of the head of a rival crime family rewarded him with a quarter-century of hard time.įor Milena Cossutta, sexy and smart, it was selling out her dreams to marry a handsome but hot-headed made man, Vinnie DeNunzio, which left her on the run from the feds in Sicily, a stranger in a strange land. Bradford was selected by the Seahawks with the 108th overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. ![]()
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