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    The Gangster

    Written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    About this audiobook

    Turn-of-the-century Detective Isaac Bell takes on the upstart leader of a vicious crime organization in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

    It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. They like to take the oldest tricks and add dynamite. When a coalition of the Black Hand's victims hire out the Van Dorn agency to protect their businesses, their reputations, and their families, Detective Isaac Bell forms a crack squad and begins scouring the city for clues. And then he spots a familiar face.

    The stakes grow ever-higher, with the Black Hand becoming more ambitious, and their targets more political. If Bell can't determine the role played by the face from his past, the next life lost could be one of the most powerful men in the nation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9780147525123
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    The Gangster
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    Clive Cussler

    Clive Cussler (1931–2020) was the author or coauthor of over eighty books in five bestselling series, including DIRK PITT®, THE NUMA FILES®, THE OREGON FILES ®, AN ISAAC BELL ADVENTURE ®, A SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURE ®, and A KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE ®. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, The Sea Hunters, and The Sea Hunters II; these describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley. 

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    • 4/5
      The Gangster is #9 in the Issac Bell series and takes place in 1906 New York. The Italians and the Irish are having a culture war, neither are well regarded by the general population. Italians in particular are underestimated, fostering an environment conducive to the rise of Sicilian organized crime.A new aquaduct is being built, and the corruption is thick. Teddy Roosevelt succeed the assassinated William McKinley but seems not to have learned from the demise of his precessor. He's popular with the masses, but the powerful wealthy find him an impediment to their interests.While Bell continues to come off as super-human, the story is steeped in period history and flavor. Very entertaining ride.
    • 5/5
      Very good adventure that takes place in the past on w/chase scenes on land/train and ice many twists and turns makes for a great read
    • 4/5
      The Issac Bell novels that Clive Cussler has invented are a fast ride from start to finish. This one is about the black hand in NYC at the turn of the century, the super-rich and an assassination plot to kill Teddy Roosevelt. Although the story has its many twists and turns I was not crazy about the number of characters. In the beginning I needed a score card to keep up but in the end he brought the main characters together for a slam bang ending.
    • 4/5
      What begins as a simple case of investigating an extortion group of immigrant Italians involved in building the viaduct to New York soon turns into an investigation into counterfitting, murder, and potential Presidential assassination. A really well put together read.
    • 3/5
      Unlike his contemporary novels, this book, part of the Van Dorn/Isaac Bell adventures, is exciting and full of adventure set in an interesting time during America's history. In a country built on waves of immigration American is not unfamiliar with the tensions caused by those waves. In this book, the Irish immigrants are fully integrated members of society, even working their way into the police to provide the familiar image of the friendly Irish cop on the beat. New York politics was being run by the kind and wise, er, utterly corrupt hand of the Democratic Machine that held Tammany Hall in a vice-like grip. The Italians were flooding off the ships from Europe desperate for a better life but still under the control of the Patrones that ran their lives be they shopkeepers or navvies on the great Catskills Aqueduct. The Black Hand, a criminal organisation that had decided to branch out into all the possible areas of crimes and extortion going decided to gouge out it's own power base stirs up the tensions to make its mark on the city and it's up to Isaac Bell and his colleagues of the Van Dorn Investigation Agency to untangle the crooks' actions before the highest figure in the land falls foul of the criminal gang.This is a much better written book than quite a lot of Cussler's joint books and I would suspect many hours of research have gone into the background of these novels
    • 3/5
      Entertaining but not up to Cussler standards. Seemed ghost-written.
    • 4/5
      The Gangster is a well researched adventure book. It takes place in the early 1900s. The book is about the rise of the Black Hand Mafia story and the gangs of New York including Tammany Hall and the illegal actions of the police department. It is a good adventure.
    • 5/5
      Well written, so many twists and turns, great characters, can't wait to read the rest in the series.
    • 5/5
      A few odd literary flourishes (We'll blame the co-author) but a satisfying romp all in all.
    • 3/5
      An OK read if nothing better is available. Slavishly formulaic with shopworn characters.
    • 5/5
      Isaac Bell takes on an Italian gangster and an American plutocrat in this story. The gangster is Antonio Branco and he is behind the Black Hand Society which is an extortion and protection gang in NYC. The plutocrat is Culp, a blue blooded American in NYC who wants to kill Theodore Roosevelt. There’s plenty of thrills and chills but Isaac manages to thwart the bad guys.This book, like the others, is a fun read that you need not take too seriously. Great entertainment, plus you can learn about US history, in this case the NYC water supply.