Hard Time

by Jack Bristow, Jason Krebbs (Editor)

Omerta - the Mafia's "sacred" vow of silence and secrecy. Hardened mobster Tommy Roma does fifty years behind bars for this very concept, after witnessing his boss, Mr. Spirochete, commit a double-homicide and taking the blame himself for the grisly murders. Now, fifty years later, Roma is unleashed upon 21st Century America. A classic fish-out-of-water tale, "Hard Time" is about a man who has trouble assimilating into 21st Century America. Gritty, darkly comic, and suspenseful, "Hard Time" takes place in the same universe as Jack Bristow's Saturday Evening Post short story, "Joe's Coffee Shop," publis

115 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 30, 2018

Reviews

[Karen S · Rating 5 out of 5]

Taylor Sheridan's "Tulsa King" is based off Jack Bristow's novel, "Hard Time," about a mobster who does decades in prison for a murder he didn't commit. In Bristow's novel "Tommy Roma" does decades in prison for a murder another mobster, Mr. Spirochete, commits. Roma takes the fall for the heinous crime and once he is released an old man discovers the mobster he took the rap for is now the boss of the mafia clan.

Tulsa King's "Pete Invernizzi" is a blatant plagiarism of two characters from this novel: Mr. Spirochete, the aforementioned Mafia Don and Salvatore DeLuna, Tommy Roma's oxygen tank-carrying Uncle.

This is a must-read for "Tulsa King" fans and crime fiction aficionados. Jack Bristow= true creator of "Tulsa King."

[Edgardo Kawachi Pascua Jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Killer to the end.

I'm glad it illustrated the true deception and evil nature of The Life. The fact that his uncle knew that his bro-in-law (Dominick Rosa) was getting whacked and couldn't do anything about it is a hallmark of The Life. Sad but true, life is not necessarily beautiful.