Winner of the prestigious "Irwin Award" in Los Angeles for Best Fiction in 2015."Room Full of Killers" is an extremely unique and powerful novel of many elements which include an adrenaline drenched look at boxing like none other and a white heat Italian love story. It features Gianni Valentino Romasco, who was brought up in the suburbs of Boston. As a youth he was bullied terribly because of his name, ethnicity and frail sickly condition. After weight training himself back to health he eventually decides to enter the boxing arena. Gianni goes through the amateur ranks then meets "Bad" Mike Brown. The story escalates like a rocket ship. The novel is extremely visual with razor sharp characterizations.After moving to the Italian North End of Boston to be near his gym, Gianni finds there's a mob war going on for control of the rackets. As he climbs the boxing ladder it turns into an obsession for winning the world title. Ironically, he discovers his own countrymen, the Mafia, are preventing his dream, which resurfaces his adolescent feelings when he was bullied. He meets Anna Piscitelli, a teacher, who was a psychology major in college. She tries to understand his Ahab like drive. They both have similar eclectic tastes including Gianni's insatiable appetite for the arts.The novel also looks at 3 generations of Romascos from Abruzzi, Italy and is filled with much humor, homemade elderberry wine, music and much, much food.