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Sto caricando le informazioni... Toughsdi Ed Falco
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"Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a twenty-three-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, Lucky Luciano, etc. Tagged "Mad Dog Coll" after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botched assassination attempt, Coll was the subject of a shoot-to-kill order issued by NY City Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, a $50,000 bounty offered by Dutch Shultz and Owen Madden, and $30,000 in reward money from by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and the city's newspapers. Loretto and Vince are bound to each other by years spent in an orphanage and on the streets, but in the summer of 1931, with Loretto in love with newly-divorced Gina Baronti, and Vince in thrall to the beautiful Lottie Kriesberger, their world of tough guys in tough times is hurtling toward disaster, and Loretto finds himself faced with impossible choices"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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This book was . . . okay. I can't think of anything especially bad to say about it. But, I can't really think of anything exceptional about it either. This is a story about bad guys, gangsters, and killers during the early 1930's. It will have a number of familiar names to anyone that knows anything about the gangster era, and probation. How many of the events that take place were actually real, I have no idea.
At times, it was hard to believe that the characters could actually be as stereotypical and the story presented them. I'm not sure if it increases your "suspension of disbelief", or detracts from it. Picture every old gangster movie that you've seen on The Turner Classic Movie Channel. Remember every cliché, saying, or slang word that was used. I'm sure you'll find it somewhere in Toughs.
Top off everything with the fact that the protagonist is completely . . . forgettable, and you have a completely mediocre book. I was not sad when the last page of the last chapter came up on my Kindle.
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