The Winter of Frankie Machine

Robert De Niro's production company has bought the film rights to the book with De Niro attached to produce and star in the movie. Frank Machianno, an affable, funny, middle-aged Italian with a love of people and life, has his own life turned upside down when his past revisits him in the form of a wise-assed kid who knows that Frank was once ?Frankie Machine, ? the most feared hit man on the West Coast. The story unfolds with headlong speed, fierce, funny, and at times violent but always a compelling page turner.