Mile High eBook Richard Condon
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A Mafia don builds a savage empire of murder and vice
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.
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.
Mile High eBook Richard Condon
I am puzzled by the other reviews. I never could get into this book. I gave up after a couple (very long) chapters. It just was not what I expected.Product details
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Mile High eBook Richard Condon Reviews
I read both at the same time (The Godfather & Mile High). I passed the Godfather one along at that time. It got all the press. Yet many, many years later this is the one that sticks to my gut. It hits hard at the truth -in fiction form. Because, quite frankly, thats the only way it could be told. Nothing has changed. A Must Read.
Should only be read by those who truly want to know how the puppet masters play the game. The takeaway is you are one of the puppets. This amazing book provides the "how" it could be done. The reader will have to decide if it could really happen this way. In the early 1960's I worked with a Chilean man who was a former seaman, then in his 60's. He claimed he worked on the Kennedy yacht during Prohibition. The boat was stripped of its interior and was filled with the finest wines and liquors from France. Back and forth, back and forth for years. He claimed the Boston police escorted the boat to the dock and guarded the unloading process. Read the book.
This is an imagined history of the hidden forces that shaped the American 20th century. Written with splenetic good humor, it postulates the Prohibition movement as the creation of one greedy New York Irish-Sicilian banker who turns his inherited knowledge of the synergy between New York ward politics, big business and organized crime into the blueprint for a tyakeover of the soul of the nation. It draws from Asbury's The Gangs of New York and also serves as a thematic "pre-quel" to Condon's other, more well-known masterpieces, The Manchurian Candidate and the multi-book Prizzi's Honor series. What a wonderful movie for the mind's eye.
Richard Condon's "Mile High" is one of the smartest, most exciting thrillers in the entire canon of American popular fiction. It was published the same year as Mario Puzo's "The Godfather." Both books feature a mafia leader known as Don Vito (interestingly, each book also has a minor character named Coppolla). There are numerous similarities between Puzo's book and Condon's, but Condon's is definitely the more intelligent and ambitious of the two. The story hits upon many of the highlights (or, perhaps, lowlights) of American history slavery, Prohibition, the Great Depression, McCarthyism, etc. The book starts out like a runaway train, and concludes with one of the most gripping showdowns in print. There is about a 100-page stretch early in the book where Condon slows his plot down with excessive detail about the family business that is at the core of this superthriller. But from about page 200 onward, the novel is as inescapable as car careening through the loops and lifts of really devious roller-coaster.
Why this book never got its due is beyond me. This is a great book written by one of the most amazing authors ever. And like many of his books this is close enough to how it may all have happened that it'll make you wonder.
This is an extraordinarily well-written book about a crime boss like in Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" (we had the same first publisher, Atheneum--Sorry, I couldn't resist this), but more sophisticated in characterization. I can't praise this novel too highly. My next book read will be Condon's "The Manchurian Candidate." I loved the movie but have never read the book.
A very engaged book, full of strong characters and fast- paced action..
A novel about greed and corruption, Big Business, mafia connection.
Highly recommended reading.
I am puzzled by the other reviews. I never could get into this book. I gave up after a couple (very long) chapters. It just was not what I expected.
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