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Lädt ... Mile High (Original 1969; 2016. Auflage)von Richard Condon (Autor)
Werk-InformationenMile High von Richard Condon (1969)
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The novel has no more energetic entrepreneur than Richard Condon, a supersonic storyteller at the top of the form which he established with The Manchurian Candidate. Full of life, larger than life, Mile High is about an ice-cold, humorless overachiever, Edward Courance West. While not much more than a young man, Eddie saw "the greatest business opportunity since the Industrial Revolution" in prohibition, sponsored and subsidized the 18th Amendment, capitalized on it by creating the "watershed" of American crime as a one man Mafia monopoly and put the angst right back in gangster. Eddie, the richest man in the world, demonstrating that the "paranoiacs are the true romantics" is a fantastic figure. And Condon's whiplash entertainment is pastmasterminded with stunning vitality.
A Prohibition-era bootlegger builds a savage empire in this "whiplash entertainment" by the author of Prizzi's Honor and The Manchurian Candidate (Kirkus Reviews). Millions of acres of forest separate Edward Courance West from the outside world. In his remote Adirondack retreat, he is tended by servants dressed in black and green, the color of West's empire--and of money. The son of an Irish powerbroker of the rough-and-tumble Lower East Side, West has been forging his kingdom since the day his father died, leaving him with a small fortune, a few bordellos, and a burning hunger to escape New York and make his mark upon the world--a mark he will leave in blood. The moment Congress passes Prohibition, West sets about building a one-man monopoly of bootlegging, smuggling, and murder. Clawing ruthlessly to the top in hopes of forgetting his father, West won't stop until he becomes the greatest criminal the world has ever seen. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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