The Chicago Connection

By: John R. Swift
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  • Summary

  • A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he tries to recapture his dreams with a feisty former classmate, she says first quit the mob. He discovers that one doesn't just quit the mob and live to tell about it; he must find another way out.
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Episodes
  • Episode Twelve

    Episode Twelve
    Dec 9 2008
    Josh, on his way to tell Capone that Moran has murdered Jake, recalls his last day as an errand boy for Capone three years ago. Josh earns another chance at shooting Moran, misses again, and Moran blows up Mason's still. Two plus years later, the epilogue.
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    30 mins
  • Episode Eleven

    Episode Eleven
    Dec 8 2008
    McGurn, sympathetic to Josh's dilemma, or maybe not, puts Josh and Jake up to ambushing Moran. Now Josh has to plan a funeral. On his way to update Capone, Josh recalls his first job with Big Al.
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    36 mins
  • Episode Ten

    Episode Ten
    Dec 6 2008
    Josh recalls fishing on Spider Lake in Mercer and lives to tell about it but remembers why he needs to shoot the lawyer who bails him out of jail.
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    37 mins

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