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    Luciano's Luck
    Luciano's Luck
    Luciano's Luck
    Audiobook7 hours

    Luciano's Luck

    Written by Jack Higgins

    Narrated by Michael Page

    3.5/5

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    In the Summer of 1943, the Allies were poised to invade Sicily. Yet the price would be high in blood and time—unless the island people rose in revolt against their Nazi oppressors.

    But only the Mafia could command an uprising, and Mafia supremo Antonia Luca hated everything American. Someone very persuasive indeed was needed to change his mind.

    And they didn’t come any more persuasive than the man known as Lucky Luciano.…

    “100 percent proof adventure” —New York Times

    “Total credibility…a thundering climax… Jack Higgins has done it again." —Yorkshire Post

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 15, 2011
    ISBN9781441844798
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    Jack Higgins

    Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.

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    • 4/5
      Luciano's Luck by Jack Higgins is very short, only two audio tape cassettes. It was a pleasant surprise. Since I had already read some reviews about the fiction in this historical fiction story, I did a little bit of research on this short chapter of history prior to listening to the cassettes. The story starts with General Eisenhower’s part in this and the author give some background information about Sicily. Jack Higgins says that Sicily had its own version of government and felt no allegiance to Italy. In fact each town in Sicily had its own capo and obedience was paid only to that capo not to those in other towns.Basically the plan was to take Lucky Luciano aka Salvatore Lucina out of prison, commute his sentence and smuggle him to Sicily to rally the Sicilians and back the Allied Invasion. There were some secondary story which are probably the fictional part of the story.I really enjoyed the male narrator’s voice which was a bit like Burt Lancaster’s. Both he, Tony Amendola and Judith Marx made it an exciting story to listen to. It was very entertaining and dramatic and Jack Higgins added some Sicilian cultural information. He said that when a woman was ready to deliver, a “witch” or streghe was sought out. There was some explicit sex but it was short. He also alludes to Sicilian customs that may have been carried over into the Mafia. The best reason for listening to this story is that it can cause you to hunger for more details of history and more information on Sicilian culture.If you have to chance to listen to this story, I highly recommend it.
    • 4/5
      With handful of facts with shovel loads of fictionalisation this book covers mafia leader Lucky Luciano's involvement in paving the way for the U.S. invasion of Italy during World War II.In the scheme of Jack Higgins books it's pretty good, in the scheme of literature in general it's at the lower end of the scale. Re-use of partial characters names and backgrounds from previous books distract from the story and overall it's a plodding tale lacking in excitement.It passes the time well enough, but you wouldn't really be too excited to read it purely for the sake of reading.