Ironically
I just finished watching The Last Don which stars Jason Gedrick.
This
action/thriller is over 450 pages combining Green Beret sequences
from Iraq and Afghanistan with an organized crime family in America.
I mention the Mario Puzo mini-series because both illustrate the
difficulty of escaping your heritage if you are born into a crime
family, the integration of organized crime in American Society, and
the shocking similarities between supposed legitimate business,
government agencies, and the mafia.
This
work of fiction uses real locations, events, and public figures and
integrates them with fictional counterparts. These action heroes are
larger than life and their experiences stretch the reader's
credulity. The text reads like an action-movie summer blockbuster. It
makes good reading and though one would hope it doesn't echo reality
after 9/11 and the Boston Marathon Bombing one is left wondering....
First
in a series that have yet to be written it would seem. The end of
book one is not the cliffhanger some free teasers have been but many
plot lines are left unresolved.
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