The disastrously hip join forces with a clan of Boston criminals in pursuit of a fortune in drug money in the novel Malrooneys. Focusing upon the oddball, double-dealing inhabitants of Basilica Hill, T.M. Merremont has created a special world of mystery, myth, and mayhem, in this most pixielated of Boston neighborhoods, “Where language is savored like the kiss of fine whiskey.” The story, full of tale-telling and blarney, revolves around the blackmail fueled investigation of a former CIA agent's murder. The reluctant investigators are the victim's resentful son and his scheming, Guinness swigging grandfather. The two grow to discover the importance of family bonds despite being at cross-purposes with other members of "the only gene pool that would have us" -the dangerously warped Malrooney clan. Along the way they face off against a Medellín drug lord who thinks he's Ché Guevara, a devil worshiping attorney, police detective partners who would rather bicker than solve a case, a New Age cult led by a charismatic dwarf, and a very persistent cannibal leper Assassin and his posse.