Gry Hala

Gry Hala's "CHESS" trilogy details the rise and fall of Prohibition-era gangster Paulus Dean, a man who struggles to define his meaning in a world that has taken everything from him--except his memories.

Peopled by heroes and hustlers both indiscernible and indestructible, the CHESS trilogy moves from the sharecropping fields of the rural South to the splendor of 1930's Harlem, New York, evoking the tragedy of a violent man and the enduring triumph of his ideals.