Meet Eddie Pannoni, as he deals with Mafia figures to recover millions of dollars in stolen bonds, is shot at by fellow police officers, leads a high speed chase through three states, and helps to seize millions of dollars worth of drugs and weapons.

Brooklyn raised and street tough, Detective Ernest Lijoi takes on a new identity as Eddie Pannoni and hits the pool halls and bars in Quincy, Massachusetts, working his way up the chain of dealers and suppliers until the day the trap is sprung and Local and Federal Police raid dozens of homes and businesses in one of the most dramatic and widespread busts in the history of New England. His secret life on the streets takes its toll on his family and his wife is at the breaking point as she witnesses the change in her New York boy. Street Business is based on a real detective and real events. Read Street Business, meet Detective Ernie Lijoi and his street guise Eddie Pannoni.

Street Business II is based on real incidents that occurred during the career of Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr., who worked under the guise of Eddie Pannoni, drug dealer and gun runner for many years. This version is a continuation of the first Street business and covers many areas that we were unable to cover in the past.

What if you were confronted with a drug dealer? How would you handle him?

Suppose you became involved with Heroin users and they handed you a syringe of heroin to inject. What would you do?

What if a drug dealer is willing to spend $10,000 dollars to have you killed? What would you do? How would you handle it?

Detective Lijoi has the answers to these questions and many more in his book Street Business II.

You will meet Tony a crazy guy that loves to deal drugs. You'll also meet The Jeweler who is a major supplier to the sick users of the poisons of the street.

You meet McQuethy and his partner Arms who are connected to the Soldado Family of Columbia and many more wild and interesting people.

Do not miss this and other books by Ernie Lijoi Sr. such as The Butcher of Boston, Meth or Myth, The Tunnel, The Cash Mule and Destructive Obsession.

The Butcher of Boston did in fact exist in the 1980s, in Boston and Quincy Massachusetts. The villain was a person that took joy and sexual satisfaction from stabbing people as he ran along a jogging area in the those cities.

This is a fictional glimpse into the life and experiences of Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr. who during his career as a DCI agent under the guise of Eddie Pannoni, drug dealer and gun runner encountered numerous investigations from narcotics to murder. Read about the exploits of Eddie Pannoni whose life is always hanging by a string. Read about Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr. as he is placed in a position where he is forced to shoot and kill a serial killer who was responsible for the deaths of eight people. In this latest Eddie Pannoni thriller, you will meet the assassin James Cooper, who was hired to kill the (DCI) Deep Cover investigator, Det. Ernie Lijoi Sr. You will actually witness the undercover deals that went on between Detective Lijoi and the people of the illicit world of Narcotics. You will encounter narcotics dealers that are likeable, others that are not, as well as a police officer who falls in with the wrong crowd, a man who gives his allegiance to the kingpins of the drug world. You will encounter drug dealers and organized crime figures, who think nothing of taking a life. People who are responsible for several murders and several attempted murders. Witness the shootouts between the Police and the drug crazed illicit narcotics dealers.

Let Eddie Pannoni -- Detective Ernie Lijoi, Sr.'s alter ego undercover cop extraordinaire, introduce you to a mixed bag of characters in this latest thriller. Mexican druglord Ernesto Adelanto, a/k/a The Surgeon wants to place a contract on the life of Detective Lijoi. Then there's Piper and Pigeon, dealers of narcotics and drugs; Cobra, the main connection to narcotics and gun dealers; and Chicken, a hooker who becomes an unwilling victim. Ernie and his team of fellow detectives challenge these illicit dealers, killers and traffickers such as Adelanto of Mexico, Leroy Watkins of Boston and Fraido Lucasie, who is connected to Vietnam, New York and Rhode Island. It's a fight to the finish between the good guys and the bad guys, and the bullets can't tell the difference.

Trying for a large fish, Det. Ernie Lijoi snares a big one: a corpse that leads him to his most dangerous and difficult case to date. Fourteen additional murders, narcotics violations, sex crimes, gambling violations, attempted murders and other similar crimes proves to be Ernie's most challenging undercover excursion into the world of crime as he is considered for promotion of the Don of Boston, with unlimited riches, beauties and drugs.

This book is a glimpse into the life and experiences of Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr. during his career as a deep cover investigator under the guise of Eddi Pannoni, gun dealer and drug runner. What if you were witness to a murder? How would you handle it? What if you had to run a narcotics operation? Would you? What if you were involved with the behavior of the criminal underworld? What if during all of this you were a Police Officer doing your job? Would you arrest people? Maybe you would play the game with them? These are the type of questions Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr., the DCI under the guise of Eddie Pannoni, will answer and the situations he will face in this novel based on his life experiences, which has been named "Meth or Myth", while he tries to keep his family safe and free of the dreadful undercurrent that springs from a world of illegal and despicable behavior One subject in the book is a Mr. Kiefer, who was a man in trouble. He needed help finding work to support himself and his family. He eventually was so deep in problems that he approached a close friend and set up a meeting, with a dealer, to inquire about work. That meeting introduced him to a world that would change his life forever. Mr. Armando Kiefer worked his way up the Illicit Methamphetamine ladder to the top. He became the major importer of Meth in the United States. After years of distribution he came to know Edie Pannoni, the street name for Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr. who became the sword that cut the arm off distribution of Meth in New England. The following story is a fictional account of events that occurred in and around New England and Canada in the 1970's and early 1980's.

What if you are placed in a position of being the only person in the room that is not responsible for the death and illness of thousands?

What if you ran, as an owner, a strip club for organized crime leaders?

Suppose that you had to negotiate for organized crime people and deliver large sums of illicit narcotics?

What if you played cards with a rapist, a murderer and knew it?

These are the type of questions Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr., the DCI will answer. The situations he will face in this novel, "The Cash Mule", while he tries to keep his family safe and free of the dreadful undercurrent that springs from a world of illegal and despicable behavior.

After discovery of a murder and within weeks, a series of events places Det. Lijoi into an area of investigation that he thought would never happen again. Det. Lijoi digs for the truth with the local Police, FBI, DEA, and the ATF. His work throughout this investigation unearths information that leads to the arrest of one of the largest Mafia controlled narcotics operations in the entire United States.

During the operation and under the guise of Eddie Pannoni, a narcotics dealer from New York, Ernie Lijoi Sr. is introduced to a group of people that create, transport and sell methamphetamine that they import. He saves the life of a child while gathering intelligence. Events continue twisting and turning until the close of the operation where the largest twist is revealed, Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr. is Eddie Pannoni, an unbelievable revelation to all of the incarcerated parties.

During the drug raids of the 1970's, in New England, there was a very large narcotics raid which spanned several States with numerous arrest and confiscations. These raids led to the arrest and conviction of hundreds of people.

This same case was followed up by a drug lords known in Colombia as the Soldato Syndicate. They decided to eliminate those suspected of being guilty of supplying information and assistance by turning to their partners New York crime family to handle the murders and to dispose of these liabilities.

Step one was the murder of the main narcotics connection in the New England area. The next man to be eliminated was his partner. Last, was the officer that did the deep cover work in the case that cost the suppliers hundreds of Millions of dollars, The Unknown Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr.

Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr. the deep cover investigator and his partner Detective Jack Wade decided not to wait for the Colombians to send their henchmen, but to go after the drug syndicate with the aid of the Federal agencies and local Police. Detective Lijoi becomes a soldier in a world of narcotics, robbery, murder and more.

Much of this story is speculation on the part of the writer based on his experience and information he received during his career as a DCI.

What would a hitchhiker and illicit narcotics activities have to do with each other? What if you were a witness to multiple murders? These are the types of questions that are answered in this book about a group of Unscrupulous Bastards.

Meet detective Ernie Lijoi Sr. as he works under the guise of Eddie Pannoni, drug dealer and gun runner. Learn about Ernie when he joins the main group of card players who meet regularly to plan their corrupt behavior. Follow him into the dangerous crooked world of illegitimate activities. You will watch him join some familiar people like The Borgazino Mafia Family in New York. They invited him back to New York in “The Preyers”

Learn how he and his partner Jack Wade protect and eliminate a thorn in the side drug dealers, thereby gaining their respect and admiration. Eddie becomes part of a world of criminal behavior that move through the back alleys and back rooms of the cities and towns in our country in an effort to eliminate the threat from the inside..

All of the names, dates and locations have been changed to protect the innocent with the exception of Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr., who was a real detective doing Deep Cover Investigations (DCI) in a specialized area of narcotics under the guise of Eddie Pannoni.

Much of this story is speculation on the part of the writer, based on his experience and the information that he received during his career as a DCI. The characters in this book are fictionalized versions of individuals that may or may not have had a relationship to real persons.