New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First crime novel written by Izzi under this pseudonym, a thriller which pits a renegade cop against Chicago's most powerful mob figures.. INSCRIBED by the author to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens "a 'special' reader" and signed as both Nick Gaitano and Eugene Izzi. After a dispute with Izzi's previous publisher, Bantam, became contentious an unusual agreement was reached: Izzi could not publish under his own name for three years - and so he adopted the pseudonym of Gaitano. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-671-870149.