K'wan

Its just one day in the life of one family, but what a family and what a day! Such is the story K’wan tells in The Reluctant King. The Kings are a New York family, operating a successful real-estate business, which is a cover for a multi-generation legacy of a much more lucrative crime business. At some point in the patriarch conceived of a feasible plan to unite a number of crime families under one person’s overall leadership, and so the family name of King is also a play on words of their place within the criminal world of Brooklyn, as King, Queen and various other hereditary royalty. One day, one very unpredictable and amazing day. I greatly enjoyed reading this book.
It was my pleasure to have received a complimentary copy of The Reluctant King to read and review.

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Wow. This was a wild ride from beginning to the end. I have not read this author before so it felt like this is an installment in a well established series. However, it is still a story about a family from humble beginnings forging a successful financial empire with ties to both legal and illegal enterprises.
The King family were all fully invested in maintaining their power and wealth in their nuclear family's hands by managing associates and even enemies. By the end of this particular book, I was fully intrigued in King family's crime saga and I plan to follow this series. If you have watched New Jack City or Power, this story reads like one of those shows. In fact, I can see this book as a tv show.… (mehr)