Ice Gender's the first book in a trilogy of a crime story with Mafia and underworld connections, spreading to gangland attrition between male(Black Rose)and female(Bloody Mary)gangs, ending in bloody mayhem.The FBI eventually get involved in the chase to apprehend the evil Emmanuel, heavily dependent on drugs and alcohol to survive his psychosis in the world of murderous crime. Pierre, the selfish father of Emmanuel starts the evil ball rolling and abandoned his son to a life of doom on the mean streets of New York and San Francisco