CRIMINAL CODE
A Michael Donatello Novel
In the shadows of Philadelphia's criminal underworld, where loyalty is currency, and revenge is law, a stolen masterpiece ignites a deadly chess match with no clean moves.
Fresh from a decade behind bars, Michael Donatello returns to find the Marcuccio crime family teetering on collapse. Their financial lifeline—a priceless painting called The Empress of Time—has vanished from the Château Lumière gallery, leaving a dead curator and a family desperate for answers.
The painting isn't just art. It's oxygen for an organization gasping its last breath.
As Michael hunts for the thieves, he uncovers a labyrinth of deception where everyone plays multiple angles. A calculating handler orchestrates perfect crimes from sterile offices. A master thief eliminates loose ends with surgical precision. An art curator with royal blood harbors secrets worth killing for. Even the case detective walks a razor's edge between duty and corruption.
When the body count rises and old alliances fracture, Michael must decide how deep into darkness he'll descend. Because recovering the painting means more than saving the family business—it means choosing which code he truly lives by.
The criminal code, or something resembling honor.
A taut, unflinching thriller of stolen masterpieces, calculated betrayals, and the thin line between justice and vengeance—where even the winner leaves bloodstained fingerprints behind.
MORAL CODE
A Michael Donatello Novel
A brutal killer leaves behind more than bodies. He leaves messages—painted faces, a signature as chilling as it is deliberate.
When a woman is found murdered in South Philadelphia, her face grotesquely adorned with pastel chalk like a child's doll, Michael Donatello—trusted fixer for the Marcuccio crime family—is pulled into a deadly game he never intended to play. The police don’t have a suspect. The media doesn’t have the full story. But someone does… and she’s looking for revenge.
Celeste Mancini, daughter of the late Anthony Mancini—the elusive former boss of the Dallas crime family—arrives in Philly with a secret: the killer who murdered her daughter is back. She believes Michael is the only man who can stop him. But Michael’s already a marked man, shadowed by federal agents and haunted by a past that won’t stay buried. When the killer’s latest mistake links him to the Marcuccio family, Michael must find the murderer before the law, or the Commission, finds him.
With the help of a U.S. Marshal walking a dangerous line and a grieving mother willing to break every rule, Michael follows a trail of violence, deception, and chilling artistry. What he uncovers could destroy more than reputations—it could dismantle the entire criminal order of South Philly.
Fast-paced, gritty, and atmospheric, Moral Code dives deeper into the world of organized crime, where justice is personal, loyalty is currency, and the code you live by might just get you killed.
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