Danny Martin was just a little kid living in the old neighborhood when Mike Amato first joined the police department. Twenty years later, the little kid had grown to be a mob wannabe whose bullet-riddled body was found in a high school parking lot. With only a whispered clue from the victim's lips, homicide boss, Mike "Ace" Amato, begins a search for the killer. The search points Lt. Mike Amato in the direction of three organizations that might want to see Danny Marin dead - the FBI, the Mafia, and members of the city's police department. As the investigation moves forward, Amato is drawn back into his old neighborhood, renews a faded romance, and learns of his own family's ties with the organized crime. Ground Lions, the second in a series of Mike Amato mystery thrillers, brings the reader to the realization that most people are not who or what we assume them to be. As in life, Ground Lions teaches us that friends are not always friends and that enemies may sometimes be the allies we need.