To Be a King

Volume 2

De: Gunner A. Lindbloom

Narrado por: William E. Crooks

After eight years, Omnio “King” Falcone emerges from prison a free man, having received a rare presidential pardon. When he returns home to Detroit, he learns that the Syndicate has begun to fracture under the poor leadership of his nefarious Uncle Leoni. Some of the Families are now posturing against each other for rackets and territories. The Commission Bosses are nervous, because they have invested millions into a pair of new Detroit casinos. Something must be done before a war erupts over who should become the city’s next Boss of Boss, so they turn to King for help.

During his time in prison, King become close with several high-ranking Bosses from around the country. One of them, a powerful caporegime from the New York’s Columbo Family, has agreed to help him carry out a plan that can earn him a place at the top of the Detroit Syndicate, while at the same time leave some of the most powerful Mafia dons in the entire country indebted to him. One of the Syndicate Bosses sees his vision for the future, and has aligned himself with him. But there is deception everywhere. Even some of his own family want him dead.

The stakes are high. The risks are great.

But the rewards are even greater. Can King Falcone execute a coup d’etat and seize control of the Syndicate? Or will he incite an all-out Motor City mob war? Can he overcome his own mixed blood and earn the right to his grandfather’s throne, or will he be banished from the Family? Read on, and see what it takes… TO BE A KING!

©2017 Gunner Alan Lindbloom (P)2025 Gunner Alan Lindbloom

Great story! Well composed!

Loved the way the story was written; the words allowed me, the reader to be able to visualize every scene.

If you're really really bored this is for you

If you have anything even mildly interesting to do you probably don't want to listen to this book. First off this book is extremely extremely extremely repetitive. "King falcone grandson of the great Dom falcone heir to the throne of the borgata blah blah blah" literally hear this repeated 96 times throughout this book in the exact same way that you just read it here. And 1,000 other things will also be repeated over and over again. Not just catch phrases or sentences but entire themes and ideas are just restated and restated and restated. At one point throughout the book I was wondering how many people is this guy going to tell about his casino he wants to build. Like he would meet some stranger off the street and just start talking about this casino and not only that is the casino he wants to build but it's on the Caribbean island of such and such and I'm going to do such and such in the Colombian government such and such. Meanwhile the person he's talking to is like sir this is a Wendy's please pull around. It's just a very poorly written book.

As for the story itself it leaves a lot to be desired. The overall premise of the book is good and fits in well with the traditional gangster genre, but it's put together so poorly you don't really enjoy it that much.

Also the narrator is trash. An AI voice narrator would have been better than this and I hate AI voice narrators.

All and all it was terrible. Any reviews that you see praising this book are either bots or the authors cousins