Bedfellows

Jack Schiavone wants to rebuild his life after an embezzlement scandal saw him drummed out of his high-paying advertising job. So hes reinvented himself as Mr. Mattress, a discount bedding franchisee in Ebbets Beach, Brooklyn. Running a mattress store is a nice, quiet lifeuntil Jack gets sucked into a simmering mob war that pits an ambitious Russian crime boss against a softening Italian don. Soon everyone is going to the mattresses. Jack falls for the dons gorgeous black-sheep daughter, a legal aid attorney, making him the target of a jealous wise guy/lounge singer whos fixated on her too. And his new store managerthe dons gentle, stamp collecting, cottage cheeseeating former consigliereproves as good at selling mattresses as he was at cooking the books for the mob. Then the Russians put on a show of force, and the dons only recourse is to call on the worlds worst hit man: a mild-mannered chiropractor with an innovative killing technique. When the smoke clears, who will be the don of Ebbets Beach? See more