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City of Dreams: Don Winslow

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Winslow’s story presents the dysfunctional nature of mob families. The Moretti’s are a case in point as Peter and Paul Moretti, brothers, do their best to make the other look bad. As the novel unfolds one gumba is screwing another’s wife, one of the gambas daughters commits suicide, and all are looking for the next drug deal that will set them up for life. Interestingly, one of the affairs is between Peter Moretti and Cassandra Murphy even as their families are trying to kill each other. So the trilogy shifts to Vegas next. What are you using as the proxy myth for the final installment?

Destacaría que es un más de lo mismo que el anterior, algo que no tiene porque ser bueno, pero que en este caso si lo es. Buen ritmo narrativo, quizás menos acción, pero bien narrada, buenos personajes y esa atmósfera de los bajos fondos y el hampa, que tan bien sabe su autor trasladarla a una novela, y que nos hace sentir como si fuéramos uno más de la banda de los Murphy. Danny Ryan’s not sure where they’re going, just that they have to get the hell out of Rhode Island.And when Hollywood starts shooting a film of his former life, Danny demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire.

The most richly accomplished of the brothers’ pairings to date—and given Connelly’s high standards, that’s saying a lot. A masterwork of mob fiction. . . . City on Firedoes for Rhode Island what David Chase’s The Sopranosdid for New Jersey. . . This novel, the first in a planned trilogy, could well end up in the American-mob canon along with the works of Puzo, Scorsese and Chase.”— Washington Post on City on Fire City on Fire” was a compelling book and this one only gets better. The characters are stronger– particularly the women– and readers are going to hunger to see the Vegas finale of this saga in the next one, “City in Ruins.”On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. Watch your mouth,” Ned says. “You’re talking to the boss.” “That was millions of dollars there,” Kevin says. Danny was there that day when she walked out of the water onto the beach like a goddess. No one knew this WASP ice maiden was Paulie Moretti’s girlfriend; no one knew he really loved her. Jimmy says, “They’ll all be coming after us. The Italians, the feds . . .” “I know,” Danny says. But not Jardine, he thinks. Maybe other feds, but not that one. He doesn’t tell the others this—no point in giving them guilty knowledge, for both their protection and his. “But the heroin was evidence. I got rid of it.” Then again, Liam never cared about anything but himself. What he thought was that she was a beautiful woman and he was a beautiful man and so they belonged together. He took her like a trophy he’d won just for being him.

City of Dreams follows on immediately after the events of City on Fire and throws you straight into the action. Danny Ryan and what is left of is loyal crew are on the run from the Italian Mob, the FBi, police - everyone really. Along with his young son and elderly father, they head for the West Coast and a new life. Of course, it is not as easy as that. The boy sleeps through his grandfather’s caterwauling. I dunno, Danny thinks, maybe the old Irish song is a lullaby.

The crime fiction canon has no shortage of memorable mob sagas by such masters as Puzo, Ellroy, and Lehane. City on Fire, with its large cast of memorable characters and low-key allusions to classical literature, maintains Mr. Winslow’s well-earned place in these ranks." — Wall Street Journal on City on Fire Danny knew it was freakin’ wrong, that he would be putting evil and suffering out into a world that already had too much of both. Was doing it even as he was watching his wife die of cancer with a tube of the same shit running into her arm.

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