Isaac Bell Adventures: The Gangster (Series #9) (Hardcover)

from lbswiener

The Gangster is a well researched adventure book. It takes place in the early 1900s. The book is about the rise of the Black Hand Mafia story and the gangs of New York including Tammany Hall and the illegal actions of the police department. It is a good adventure.

from dswaddell

What begins as a simple case of investigating an extortion group of immigrant Italians involved in building the viaduct to New York soon turns into an investigation into counterfitting, murder, and potential Presidential assassination. A really well put together read.

from joannemonck

The Issac Bell novels that Clive Cussler has invented are a fast ride from start to finish. This one is about the black hand in NYC at the turn of the century, the super-rich and an assassination plot to kill Teddy Roosevelt. Although the story has its many twists and turns I was not crazy about ...

from JeffV

The Gangster is #9 in the Issac Bell series and takes place in 1906 New York. The Italians and the Irish are having a culture war, neither are well regarded by the general population. Italians in particular are underestimated, fostering an environment conducive to the rise of Sicilian organized c...

from davevanl

Entertaining but not up to Cussler standards. Seemed ghost-written.