Joe sends reinforcements who turn the failed business deal into an extended gun battle. Lou is enamored of the liquor and Hiram’s foster daughter, Tempest, and doesn’t want to suffer the consequences of failure, so he stays in the mountains. Hiram Holt, the bootlegger in question, isn’t interested in a partnership, though, and he and his family try to send Lou on his way. It is 1929 and “Handsome” Lou Pirlo has been given his first real assignment by his boss, Joe Masseria: go down to West Virginia and get the producer of some wonderful moonshine to supply Joe’s organization. Long-time collaborators Azzarello and Risso (100 Bullets) reunite with panache for the story of a negotiation gone wrong and the violent consequences thereof. This Prohibition-era clash between New York mobsters and moonshiners from West Virginia is soaked in equal measures of hooch and blood.
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