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Title: The Confessions of Al Capone

Author: Loren D. Estleman

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In 1944, after Al Capone has been released from prison, J. Edgar Hoover assigns an FBI junior agent to insinuate himself into Capone's life and gain his trust so that Hoover can nail as many of Capone's Mob confederates as possible. Capone, suffering from the neurological effects of syphilis, is alternately lucid, full of the passion and energy that fuelled his rise to the pinnacle of American crime... and rambling or ranting, the broken shell of a man released from prison so he could die at home with his family.

With the narrative gifts honed in dozens of novels, Loren Estleman has captured the essence of this American icon as never before. With subtly nuanced portrayals of those in Capone's circle - his wife Mae Capone, members of the Chicago Outfit including the deadly Frank Nitti - as well as his nemesis, J. Edgar Hoover, Hoover's secretary Helen Gandy and others, The Confessions of Al Capone is a major literary achievement.

Members Reviews:

A Memorable Novel

Loren Estleman, celebrated author of mystery and western fiction, has written a distinguished historical novel about the last years of Chicago mobster Al Capone. The story revolves around an effort by J. Edgar Hoover to insert an agent, garbed as a priest, into Capone's Florida household, to see what can be learned about the mob. But this richly textured novel is much larger than the storyline suggests. The FBI agent, who once studied for the priesthood, has deep reservations about what he is doing as he wins the trust of a dying, syphilitic, and sometimes volatile Capone late in World War Two. The novel becomes an examination of conscience, of right and wrong, of characters who have large virtues and vices trapped in the same body. We are introduced to Capone's remarkable wife Mae, shadowy, tough, in many ways the dominant force in the household. Hoover, the vanity-saturated head of the FBI, emerges as someone more sinister and ruthless than Capone, and by the end of the novel the tables have largely turned. The cruel Hoover is less a man of honor than the mobster. This is a large novel. Its compass includes the straitened life of Americans in 1944, the mores and beliefs of a country radically different from what it is now, and the ethnic and tribal struggles of various people who were not yet absorbed by the American melting pot. This novel will loom large in the selection of the next Pulitzer Prize.

A home run from a practiced home-run hitter

Loren Estleman has one of the most supple imaginations of any fiction writer of his era. He has written convincingly and well in several genres, but this is the closest he's come yet to a straight novel. Not only does he wonderfully evoke the epoch of which he writes, he's managed to humanize one of the great villains of the twentieth century. If he weren't so closely identified with the crime genre, he'd probably win some kind of award for this engrossing novel.

Great read

My dad at the age of 84 seldom reads. Mostly due to macular degeneration, however he persevered and finished this book due to its content and large print. Highly recommend...

this book is just a little to long. while ...

this book is just a little to long. while 3/4 of it grab my interest, it was the other 1/4 that almost made me put the book down and go on to the next one.

Fascinating

It's a long comprehensive read, but one you will stick to.