- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Medallion; 1 edition (Sep 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933836946
- ISBN-13: 978-1933836942
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 16 x 4.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 658 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #775,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The author's previous books have garnered him acclaim and a small but devoted audience; this one could easily life him into the mainstream." —Booklist
"This is a bottom-of-the-ninth, two-out, grand slam home run of a book." —Lorenzo Carcaterra, author, Sleepers and Chasers
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When Secret Service agent John Mavio infiltrates a ring of organized crime leaders involved in an elaborate counterfeit money operation, including two violent Irish criminals from Hell’s Kitchen, he risks his life to stop what may be the most sinister operation in the country’s history. Every step of drugs, booze, and blood brings him closer to his own demise in a gory, dangerous undercover world far removed from his own personal reality, which includes his pregnant wife and terminally ill father. But when these two worlds meet, Mavio must implement every skill he has learned to save himself, his family, and the people of New York City.
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interesting Manhattan police procedural, Sep 5 2009
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Shamrock Alley (Hardcover)
Secret Service agent John Mavio goes undercover in an effort to break up a particularly violent Irish gang working out of Hell's Kitchen. He plans to end their lucrative counterfeiting operation. As a collateral action, Mavio also hopes to bring to justice two predominantly nasty gang members, two twenty-something age killers Jimmy Kahn and Mickey O'Shay.
To achieve his objective Mavio pretends to be a criminal wanting to buy counterfeit money from Kahn and O'Shay. They do not trust him and he knows it making him wonder if a snitch is in his office working for the gang. Still he persists trying to obtain evidence to send both behind bars even knowing the danger if they uncover his identity to himself and his family; and the realism that O'Shay has never been convicted of any crime even when a cop witnessed him killing someone; which adds to his fear for his loved ones.
This is an interesting Manhattan police procedural that looks closely at the gangs, drugs, and those living at the peripheral on gangbanger waste and charity scraps in the cesspool. Ronald Damien Malfi paints a dark gloomy Manhattan based on a real 1980s case. Although the story line is very straightforward and in some regards narrow, SHAMROCK ALLEY provides readers with a solid undercover investigation and more fascinating in a sad macabre way the life of gangbanger groupies, hanger-ons and dependents.
Harriet Klausner
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extremely factual, Dec 1 2009
By David A. Spearman - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Shamrock Alley (Hardcover)
Even as stated this is a work of fiction we know that more than 90 percent is true. The conquering and intimidating neighborhoods by a few over the years has become a regular review. Due to the lawyers these criminals run free and do as they please. As in this story though there are times a certain few fearless men stand and deliver. So this story shows. A young secret service agent teamed with a older man strike out because of counterfiting and find two criminals the worse of the worse. There is nothing they do that would ever couse you to beleve they are sane. The story continues to a very interesting conclusion. I would suggest this book highly.
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