I stormed to the same super that had saved the manuscript a month before and complained. My ceiling lights would shake with each thudding footstep. Each night, my writing regimen was interrupted because the upstairs tenant spent his moon-drenched hours clomping back and forth on his floor. Was it just luck? Or was something larger looking out for me?Īt one point during the book’s revision process, I was stuck on a particular chapter’s rewrite. The book that almost died in a shaft became a national bestseller. The path to the novel’s soul was revealed. The story fell into place as easy as a knife cuts through butter.
I took the pages into my hands, and suddenly it was no longer a spear in my heart. “I thought you might have thrown it away by mistake.” “I found this at the bottom of the compactor shaft,” he said. The next morning, the building superintendent knocked on my door with my manuscript in his hands, my name typed across the front page. I didn’t know that the week before, based on New York City ordinances, all apartment incinerators had been replaced with trash compactors and our building’s compactor unit had been installed the day before. I felt relieved I could return to my life, go to work, and earn a paycheck. Determined to kill the beast, I took the nearly completed manuscript-the only copy I had-and walked it to the incinerator shaft and dropped it down into the fires. Louis, Kansas City and Boston, it is the story of epic, transformative times and two violent men, who meet on a descent into blood and Hell.There were no computers in those days.
Filled with real events and real heroes and villains, who rampaged from New York's Bowery through to Chicago, St.
It is a story of murder and revenge, set during the rise of organized crime in America from 1900 to 1912 when the Irish Mob ruled all major American cities, only to be taken down by its own hubris and the rise of the Jewish and Italian Mobs into labor racketeering and, then, bootlegging. This year, his newly-written historical novel, The Circus of Satan, will be published. He is now at work on the third book in The Sentinel Trilogy, currently untitled, while The Sentinel and The Guardian are being mounted for e-book sales. The Sentinel sequel, The Guardian, was also a bestseller along with his next book, Monster. His first published novel (Simon and Schuster and Ballantine) was The Sentinel, which rose to Number 2 on the New York Times Mass Market Best Seller List. Jeffrey Konvitz was born in New York City, but after graduating from Cornell University and Columbia Law School, he headed to Los Angeles, where he lives and works as an entertainment finance attorney, producer (The Sentinel and Spy Hard, among others) and novelist.
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