Rocco of 1935 by Cain Wilkins

The lives of a rising star of 1930’s Golden Gloves boxing, along with a jilted ex-lover of the heirto an industrial fortune, and a sheriff bent on his reelection prospects, collide in an idyllicsmall town in upstate New YorkRocco Rocosano was enjoying his meteoric rise in the world of amateur boxing with the goal oflanding a spot on the United States Olympic Team and competing in the Berlin games of 1936 when abeautiful and confident Marti Long moved to town looking for a lost love and the father of herone-year-old child. Power and corruption lead to trouble for Marti as a set of circumstances causesSheriff Martin Bates to consider Rocco to be the main suspect in her disappearance. As the Olympichopeful’s popularity skyrockets with every win, Sheriff Bates fights pressure from an overzealousstate police detective’s urge to make a quick arrest. It’s only through dogged detective work thatthe real story and criminals are found, just as Rocco is due to set sail for Germany.