BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Author Kenny “Kenji” Gallo will be signing copies of his book BREAKSHOT: A Life in the 21st Century Mafia, at the Barnes & Noble at the Irvine Spectrum in Irvine California on Saturday, September 26th. BREAKSHOT: A Life in the 21st Century Mafia is the salacious tell-all memoir of Kenny “Kenji” Gallo, the playboy Japanese-American gangster who is the most controversial figure in the American underworld over the past thirty years.

In a stranger-than-fiction career that included stints with Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel, Los Angeles’ Milano Mafia Family, New York’s Lucchese and Colombo Mafia Families, and the California porn industry, Kenji employed guile and brute force to become the most famous Asian-American gangster in modern history.

BREAKSHOT tells the unique, outrageous, and cliché-busting story of how the 21-year-old suburban Japanese kid joined the Colombo Family under the legendary wiseguy John “Sonny” Franzese and his charismatic Jewish lieutenant, Jerry Zimmerman. After a few years with the Colombos, Gallo joined LA’s Milano Mafia Family under the iconic West Coast mafioso Vincent “Jimmy” Caci, who took Kenji under his wing and taught him the way of the wiseguy. Gallo delivers a hilarious, withering account of both the bumbling Sopranos-esque thugs of the younger generation of the Mafia and the cinematic if helplessly outdated elder statesman of the Mob.

Detailing Kenny Gallo’s glamorous, violent, and ultimately redemptive journey as an Asian-American gangster in the underworld, BREAKSHOT is the unforgettable story of one of the most unique and unlikely characters in modern American history.