Joe's Regulars

About the Book

Joe’s Regulars is a story that deals with the daily lives of a cast of characters that includes a drunken justice, a maverick old lawyer, a wheeler-dealer politician, a female newspaper publisher and others whose lives are intertwined in a loosely structured group of people known as “Joe’s Regulars.”

Joe is Giovanni Contratto; his regulars are the rich and influential of the city that are regular patrons at “Giovannis,” his sumptuous landmark restaurant.  It is through the activities of a number of these people that a story of human weakness and official corruption is told.

About the Author

After four years in the U.S. Navy, John R. Crawford obtained a $500 loan on his only paid for possession, a Studebaker coupe. With this fortune in hand he sought out a printer who agreed to print his new weekly paper and also extended him a month’s credit. From that point on Crawford discovered that the hackneyed adage, ‘The harder I work the luckier I get,’ made sense. Twenty-five years later he sold out to an international publisher for well over a million dollars and chased the sun from Northern New Jersey to Snee Farm Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. To date he has written four novels. Joe’s Regular’s is his first.