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Title: Toughs

Author: Ed Falco

Narrator: Paul Schulze

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a 23-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, and Lucky Luciano.

Tagged "Mad Dog Coll" after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botched assassination attempt, Coll was the subject of a shoot-to-kill order issued by New York City Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, a $50,000 bounty offered by Dutch Shultz and Owen Madden, and $30,000 in reward money from by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and the city's newspapers. Loretto and Vince are bound to each other by years spent in an orphanage and on the streets, but in the summer of 1931, with Loretto in love with newly-divorced Gina Baronti, and Vince in thrall to the beautiful Lottie Kriesberger, their world of tough guys in tough times is hurtling toward disaster, and Loretto finds himself faced with impossible choices.

Members Reviews:

Film Noire Crime Fiction Done Right

Which character as performed by Paul Schulze was your favorite?

Loretto Jones

Who was the most memorable character of Toughs and why?

Mad Dog, because he was psycho

Any additional comments?

After his success with The Family Corleone, which became a New York Times Bestseller in 2012, Author Ed Falco revisits New York City in a new Crime Drama set in the early 1930s. Combining real life events from that period and brilliantly written Fiction, Toughs will captivate your interest from the first chapter and it will never let go.

The story follows Loretto Jones, an orphan teenager that grew up in the lesser neighborhoods of New York City at the turn of the Century. He is trying to be a good person, because the nuns at the orphanage told him to be that way. But, living surrounded by young gangsters, he will be pulled into a series of events that will put his life in danger and make him want to settle down, to have a family and to stop anything related to the bootleggers and other criminals.

The story opens with Loretto being witness to an assassination attempt by Vincent Coll, an Irish hitman, who was trying to kill a rival gangster. Vincent fails and all hell brakes loose when children and bystanders fall hurt, riddled with bullets from the assassins gun. The Police and the Mayer are calling Coll a Mad dog and a manhunt begins. After this terrifying event, Loretto will run and hide, because both Vincent and his target think that he will talk to the Coppers.

If youve read my previous reviews, you already know that I hate spoilers and that Ill do everything I can to avoid them. The rest of the story will follow Loretto, Vincent and some really impressive Organized Crime figures, real and imagined, from 1931 as they fight for supremacy in New York.

Ed Falco is a great writer, he tells a gripping and compelling story, combining alike real life and fictive characters, describing with excellent vividness a New York City torn apart by gang wars, betrayal, corruption, drama, sex and murder. He even makes you care about someone you know you shouldnt, and thats something that not too many authors are able to do these days. The book is not very fast paced, Mr.