Surviving the Arena: Ambition, Corruption and Murder - Paperback

by Karen Leslie Carmichael (Author)

AMBITION, CORRUPTION EVEN MURDER. When a controversial domed sports Arena begins construction in 1970s' New Orleans, the plan calls for the world's tallest sign-a challenge that only a Las Vegas sign company can tackle.Regal Sign's representative, Sam McCormick, lands the contract of his life, but he quickly finds himself entangled in a web of corruption and deceit perpetratedby the arena's powerful finance committee, including the mayor and membersof the city's most prestigious law firm.Sam enlists his trusted friend, Tony DeLuca, son of infamous Las Vegas mob boss Benny DeLuca, and Jamaica Russe, an enigmatic young woman with an agenda of her own, to stage a daring break-in at the offices of the Arena committee.There, they discover graft running so deep, it triggers a federal investigation into evidence of bribery and blackmail, even murder.Together, the trio must unravel the monstrous criminal web plaguing the Arena project, escape the deadly voodoo curse placed on it, and survive the diabolical forces that will do anything to stop th