Helpful Score: 3
Don't shy away because it is a ganster novel, it is quite a compelling story with raw and realistic emotions, a true family drama.
Helpful Score: 2
This was a great book! Being a big fan of all that is The Godfather and mob related movies and books, this was one of the best. It followed Angelo Vesteiri from his birth on a ship headed to America throughout his career as a mobster. Very good read.
Helpful Score: 1
Larry King in USA Today- "A page-turner of a mafia story that takes us inside the characters and makes them jump off the pages."
Chicago Sun-Times - " An epic that embraces not only a handful of flawed men and women on the margins of society, but their time and place....Carcaterra knows the underworld's rhythms and philosophy.... Gangland is [his] country."
Chicago Sun-Times - " An epic that embraces not only a handful of flawed men and women on the margins of society, but their time and place....Carcaterra knows the underworld's rhythms and philosophy.... Gangland is [his] country."
Helpful Score: 1
Born in the midst of tragedy and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family - the criminals who preside over early twentieth century New York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals, yet comes to understand the meaning of loyalty. As the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create.
