power of perception writers David Carraturo

Author, David Carraturo is a life-long resident of Tuckahoe, a predominately Italian-Irish American community in Westchester County, New York. He has spent over the decades working on Wall Street and is married and the father of three daughters. An avid poker player and organized crime/World War Two buff, he spends his free time with his family and exercising the mind and body to sustain happiness and success.  He loves to read a multitude of topics, both fiction and non-fiction but his true passion is anything related to World War Two as well as economics and politics.

The Cameron trilogy includes Cameron's Quest, Cameron Nation: Going All-in to Save His Country and Columbus Avenue Boys: Avenging the Scalamarri Massacre. Columbus Avenue Boys earned Honorable Mention for General Fiction at the 2012 Hollywood Book Festival, was optioned for screenplay adaption and has received recommended read reviews from Kirkus, Midwest Book Reviews and Writer’s Digest. 

The three novels are unique. Cameron Nation is his "Conservative Manifesto" Columbus Avenue Boys is an epic story about the Scalamarri family tree and their life throughout the 20th Century. A mafia story with a whole lot more! The young adult years of the Columbus Avenue Boys are revealed in Cameron’s Quest. Chris Cameron, Tuckahoe’s golden boy, ventures off to the University of Texas on a football scholarship to better his life while Sal Esposito and Tony Albanese earn their education on the streets as enforcers and earners for a ruthless organized crime family. Family blood is thick and the trio bond together to persevere through life’s rollercoaster.