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The Old Turk's Load

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Angelo DiNoto is the most powerful crime lord in New Jersey, his empire sustained by pure heroin from the poppies of an old Turkish farmer. That is, until a $5 million dollar shipment goes missing.Richard Mundi, a shady developer, sees the lost heroin as capital infusion for his failing business. His daughter Gloria, literally in bed with would-be revolutionaries, thinks it's her ticket out. "Mailman", a long-time postal clerk dying of cancer, believes finding the heroin would be perfect ending to a failed life. Add in punch-drunk P.I. Kelly, hired by Mundi to tail Gloria, Kelly's young protege, two brothers working as DiNoto's enforcers, and a conflicted collections agent, and you have an Elmore Leonard-esque cast of characters running rampant-until all threads lead to an unforgettable showdown over the old Turk's load.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      A million-dollar load of Mafia heroin from an "Old Turk" gets waylaid during the 1967 Newark riots. A motley assortment of thieves, opportunists, slimeballs, and a few decent folk are out to find it. This Gregory Gibson novel is rife with characters, perhaps too many, who fight and kill in their attempts to get their hands on the drugs. There are so many people that it's difficult to keep them straight in the audiobook version. Narrator R.C. Bray sounds like an old-time movie newscaster with his punchy Walter Winchell delivery. Kudos to him for imitating a man with a laryngectomy who emerges as a main character. Annoying lengthy silences between chapters, about 10 seconds long, cause the listener to constantly check the player. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 4, 2013
      The 1967 Newark, N.J., riots form the backdrop for Gibson’s quirky, amusing first novel. Farmed on “a remote Anatolian plateau” by an old Turk, “ten plastic sacks of diacetyl morphine” arrive in New Jersey in the care of the notorious Street Brothers, who promptly lose the load during the chaos of the riots that summer. The mob wants it back, but the eccentric Mailman sees it as a shot at a better life. Meanwhile, a businessman hires Manhattan PI Walkaway Kelly to spy on his daughter, the heiress Gloria Mundi. Gloria is dabbling in subversion with “the well-known revolutionary” Kevin Gallagher, a mole for the feds. Kelly’s world-weary observations anchor the action: “If there was a genetic predisposition to the low life, this poor bastard had it.” This well-handled caper novel recalls the late great Donald Westlake. Readers will want to see more crime, and more comedy, from Gibson. Agent: Neeti Madan, Sterling Lord Literistic.

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