Blown Away -

Hal Kantor

Sphere

1981

346 páginas

11h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780722151457

Brooklyn 1915 Benzi Willens remembered the year well. It was the year he was barmitzvahed. The year he took his first woman. And the year he killed his first man.

From that moment, Benzi set out to claw his way to the top of organised crime. His underworld connections introduced him to gambling, extortion, theft and murder. Whilst his own canny brad of guts and vitality brought him a wealthy marriage and an extraordinary power over women. Even the war played into fortunes in the wake of profits from prohibition. By hi prime Benzi had become the wise man of U.S. crime, imposing order on the warring Families and establishing a murder squad to exterminate troublemakers. Every troublemaker except one. And when he discovered who had plotted his betrayal he set a bloody trap of vengeance that would blow the organisation wide apart. . .

A nerve-taut novel of murder, mayhem and the mob in the classic tradition of the godfather.