Cloverdale, CA: Buti Publications, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel which continues the tale of his father's rise to become Capo of the local bootleggers, battling the hijackers from the other side as a producer of the high-proof alcohol known as jackass brandy. Now the Italians are battling not only the lawmen and rival mobs of Rumbling Wine Barrels, but also lawyers: their own turncoat counsel ("a crook in his own right") and the politically-ambitious District Attorney of Amador County, the Honorable Earl Warren. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 2002. Illustrated with drawings by Dug Waggoner, Map. . 369 pp. ISBN: 0-96489601X.