Illegals: An American Saga

By Pavel Batel

The action comedy "Illegals" takes us into the second half of the 1990s. A failing relationship with a troubled model and a tragedy in his family lead the author, who is also the protagonist of this tale, to flee from his home country to what has been called the "promised land". Intending to make a new start in life, he finds that scrubbing toilets in one of the mega factory complexes on the outskirts of Chicago, and the conditions offered to him in the system of modern slavery run by the local branch of the Polish mafia, were not exactly what he thought he was signing up for. When he can no longer stand it, he begins to reckon with the situation in his own, unorthodox way: by founding a Czech-Slovak gang made up of some of the strangest characters ever. They hit the illegal-employment scene with a big splash, where justice is sorted out mafia-style -- but the logic of that system means that it will never be stable, and is always undermined by selfishness, malice, and faulty communication. How can he escape the chain of consequences he has set into motion?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1973279630
• ISBN13: 9781973279631
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"