"Mayor of Kingstown" is a story about the McCluskey family that is involved in the business of prisons in the town of Kingstown. The main character is Mike McCluskey, and he is one of the indirect managers of seven prisons that are locate within a 10-mile radius with 20,000 inmates. He manages this with the support of his position as mayor. Mike's job is a contraband business where he takes tennis balls with illicit articles and cats them over the prison walls. The story is set in a town where prisons are the main industry, and it delves into the themes of power, corruption, and survival.
Characters:
- Mike McCluskey: He is the current mayor of Kingstown and also the boss of the prison business. Mike will be the one to organize the drug smuggling and at the same time, he will be the one to control the gangs inside the prisons. This series is showing Mike as a clever leader but at the same time, a ruthless one and that he has inherited the family business from his father.
- Mitch McCluskey: Mike's brother and the ex-mayor of Kingstown. Here, Mike is portrayed as a tough character and Mitch as a kind-hearted one; He is the type of person who listens to the problems of the people and for instance, he arranges a man in such a way that his daughter will be transferred to another prison only to ensure that the girl will be out of danger. Mitch’s awful killing results in a succession of events that sees Mike going further into the dark lord of prison politics.
- Miriam McCluskey: Mike and Mitch’s mother. She is an English professor and she does not like the idea of her sons entering the prison business. She is depicted as a good character whose role is to show the contrast between the corrupt sons and their honest mother.
- Kyle McCluskey: The youngest one from the Unlucky McCluskey brothers, a police officer and married to Tracy. After Mitch’s death, Kyle becomes involved in the family's wrongdoing and is slowly dragged into the prison business.
- Ed: A prison officer who is highly trusted and works closely with Mike. In addition to being a major player in the smuggling operations, he is also a prison officer and breaks up the fights in the prisons.
- Vera: The wife of Milo Sunter, a prisoner. She came to Mitch to request a favor, to get something for her husband, but things got out of hand from there. And Ramos, a gangster, kills Vera, saying it puts him on the good guys' side.
- Milo Sunter: A criminal who has been locked up for a long time. He is a gang leader and he runs most of his business out of the prison. His power reaches even outside of the prison, and this is one of the reasons why he becomes an enemy of Mike.
- Bunny: the leader of the gang and a kind of spokesperson for the black community. Mike and Bunny scheme against each other, and their relationship is both warm and cold - besides, there is definitely some sort of argument between them.
- Ramos: a criminal who murders Vera, the woman who is the reason for Mitch’s death, and takes away her map. His deeds cause a chain reaction of violence which may lead to the collapse of the peace in Kingstown.
- Daryl: a black male prisoner who scares new prison officer Sam. Their interaction and the consequences of these cause more problems with the existing racial tensions and gang cliques in the prisons.
- Sam: a newly hired prison officer; Daryl picks on him, bullies, and attacks him. The story shows how hard it is for Sam to gain respect and control in the prison environment.
- Iris: A young woman who works for Milo. She is sent to Kingstown to get some work done for him. By her being involved, the mystery to the McCluskey family's criminal activities is getting even more complicated.
Plot Details:
The story kicks off with Mike cutting a deal with a boy to throw a tennis ball filled with contraband over the prison wall, thus setting the procedure for the smuggling operation. As Mitch keeps his dance without trip to the wishes of others, Vera arrives and asks Mitch to grant something to her imprisoned husband, Milo. That minimal надоgone Vera's killing by Ramos, followed by the latter killing Mitch while robbing him.
Mike has taken over Mitch's role and is at a loss of what to do after witnessing his brother's murder. Gang leaders like Bunny and Duke are each running their own agendas and are constantly bombarding him with demands. Apart from that, Mike has to deal with his racially segregated prisons that get even more heated after the incident of Sam and Daryl.
Mike is trying to keep a lid on things, keep the peace on the streets of Kingstown despite the constant pull of social fabric by the personal loss and the heavy demands of his office. Murder in Gonzalez: The Myth of Southern Hospitality It is a small town divided by entrenched divisions, but the myth of Southern hospitality hangs airily over the characters, who are reluctant to mesh.
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