Richard Bonte

"All Black" is the fourth volume in the series, 'The Family.' Michael Green, the hero of "Black on White" in volume three, takes a turn for the worse after the demise of the love of his life, Italian actress Carla Signori, at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The Great Depression has grabbed America by the short hairs, but not Studio Head Michael Green who gained great wealth during the Stock Market Crash when he sold short while everyone else sold out. At the beginning of the Depressing 1930s, Michael Green has money, a thriving movie studio called 'Tiger Productions, ' a beautiful wife with a child on the way and all the material possessions one can have, but there's something missing. Yes, it's a thing called 'love' that Michael spends most of his waking moments running after in all the wrong places with all the wrong people. Find out how Michael risks his life and the lives of those dearest to him just to discover that what he's looking for is right in front of him but he just can't see it.

When Rod Lafleur is visited one day by a distant second cousin, Teresa Roberts, he doesn't know what to think. For one thing, he hardly knows Terry, having met her only once and talked to her a couple of times on the telephone. For another, Terry has always ranted on about hair-brained schemes and pots of gold, about this or that one being greedy or not getting their fair share of the family pie: a privately-held, well-known plastic toy company in the Mid-West. Sure, Rod and his extended family have inherited twenty thousand gift shares of the Allen Company. But they have no decision-making power, and the shares are worth nothing on the open market. Terry has a new spin and the Lafleurs are willing listeners until they find out that the option contract she has is not what they thought it would be nor is Terry exactly who she claims to be. Will Rod be able to save his family from the clutches of the evil Terry and his own greedy sister-in-law? Will Rod be able to save himself?