Three generations. Fifty years of secrets. And one last chance to leave the past behind.
Vincent LoCicero was never supposed to make it out.
Not out of the streets of Long Island. Not out of the heroin addiction that nearly killed him. And certainly not out of the criminal world that had been swallowing the men in his family long before he was born.
But somehow, he did.
Nearly a decade later, Vincent has everything he once dreamed of. A wife. A daughter. A home overlooking the ocean. His father, Sal, finally enjoying the quiet life he'd spent decades working toward.
For the first time in generations, the LoCiceros appear to have outrun their history.
Appearances, however, have always been deceiving.
When construction workers uncover two bodies buried near the Van Wyck Expressway, a secret dating back to the violent underworld of 1970s New York threatens to resurface. For Sal LoCicero, the discovery brings back a night he's spent nearly half a century trying to forget.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Weiss, the disgraced attorney whose corruption and cruelty left a trail of ruined lives, is fighting to overturn the conviction that put him behind bars.
And Anthony Ombrosi, the aging mobster who has spent his life somewhere between the LoCicero family's greatest protector and its worst enemy, is running out of reasons to keep his secrets.
Drawn back to Long Island, Vincent finds himself confronting truths about his family, his childhood, and the people he loved that threaten to unravel everything he thought he understood.
But the greatest danger may not be waiting for him in New York.
It's already following him.
Behind the comfortable life Vincent has built lies a man struggling with depression, old addictions, and the terrible realization that surviving something doesn't mean you've recovered from it. As his marriage begins to fracture and the ghosts of his past grow harder to silence, Vincent finds himself making choices that could cost him the very family he fought so hard to protect.
Because in the LoCicero family, love and loyalty have always come at a price.
And sooner or later, somebody has to pay it.
From the working-class neighborhoods of Long Island to the darkest corners of New York's criminal underworld, Out of the Blue brings the story that began in In Powder Blue and continued through The Car in White to its final, devastating conclusion.
Some men spend their lives trying to escape their fathers' sins. Others spend their lives repeating them.