This could have been called 'Gangs of New York', but I think someone else got there first.
A long and at times hard work book. The central figure is a fairly unassuming journalist living in Miami until he gets a summons from his aunt in New York. His father, who he thought had died years ago, has been shot, but not fatally, in an off licence.
It transpires, although very slowly, that her father is a gangster and the leader of one of two rival gangs who control crime in New York.
The book then covers the machinations between her father’s no.2, the rival boss, a policeman, and an apparent whore, who is actually an undercover FBI or CIA agent.
It ends with four simultaneous attempted bank robberies in New York, with the gangs co-operating with a view to splitting the spoils and the father hiding over his share. But the authorities are aware and the plot is foiled.
Very good complex thriller.
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