The American signs the first part of a mafia trilogy with tragic accents, rooted in the Rhode Island, where he grew up.
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August 1986. Like every summer, mafia spend their holidays with women and children in a fishing village, near Providence, the capital of the State of Rhode Island (United States), which they put in Regulated cut. Similarly to their fathers, they praised adjoining cottages facing the sea. Two enlarged families mingle there, that of the Moretti and that of the Murphy. On the one hand the Italians, on the other the Irish, linked by a cooperation pact. The first manages the games of money and the automatic distributors (cigarettes, alcohols), the latter have control over docks and related traffic. Each clan breaks goods trucks, control of racketeering territories, restaurants, clubs. Together, they have in their sleeve a majority of judges, municipal officials, police and senators. Everything rides or almost.
Notwithstanding, peace is fragile. She can shatter, as in the past, at the time of the Trojan War, because of a beauty contest whose referee will be rewarded by the wife of Ménélas, or breaks forever during a feast of clams . In this case, a clambake, this seafood barbecue typical of New England. Thus are born the wars and their strewn with corpses. Small. A brawl between peppers on a beach. A beast rivalry of roosters. From a clambake where an inconsistent hose dares to touch the chest of a “Gummar” (“mistress”, in the language of the underworld) which is not his.
rooted in antiquity
Thus begins the murderous conflict which will oppose the former allies of Providence and put “the city in flames”, title of the twenty-second story of Don Winslow. The sexagenaire writer has always argued that the black novel became like Antiquity (the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, the Eschylus Orestie, the Orestie of Eschylus), as well as in the repertoire Shakespearean. So many great texts, archetypes and myths that have rocked his youth and later inspired this son of a librarian. He owes them the realistic paintings of organized crime and police corruption that he has signed for thirty years. It is under their aegis, as the exergues of the book indicate, that the American explicitly places the epic of the underworld that he has just undertaken.
At the heart of this inaugural component of a new trilogy stands Danny Ryan, 29, brother-in-law by alliance of the putative heirs of the Murphy, Pat and Liam clan. “Instead of being a prince, Danny is a kind of little duke,” sums up from Don Winslow. Here, in fact, a good soldier and a faithful husband, a character that is both courageous and temperate, as was inés. The novelist announced that he would continue his trajectory in the following volumes. Hollywood will be the next destination of this lieutenant who will eventually rise to the rank of supreme leader. “When Enée Sweaks out in Carthage, he enters a cave and sees a wall fresco representing the fall of Troy – himself, his dead friends. What would be the modern equivalent? A cinema decor”, explained recently The writer at the Crimereats site .
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