• Death Wish

  • The Story of the Mafia
  • By: Iceberg Slim
  • Narrated by: Cary Hite
  • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (169 ratings)

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Death Wish

By: Iceberg Slim
Narrated by: Cary Hite
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Publisher's summary

This is the story of Chicago's ruthless and tireless Mafia. The intensely real characters - the brutal overlords, their faithful lackeys, and their vengeful enemies - all collide in acts of loyalty, lust, greed, and death.

Power hungry Don Jimmy Collucci is out to become the kingpin of Chicago's "Honored Society." His rise to the top can only be thwarted by one man - a man fueled by revenge who is hell-bent on bringing Collucci's infamous organization down: the "Black Warrior," Jessie Taylor. When ambitions collide, guns are drawn and blood is spilled. This gritty crime fiction tale is the original Mafia story.

©2013 the Robert Beck Estate (P)2014 Blackstone Publishing, and Urban Audiobooks

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Family Pride

the narrative was excellent the plot followed really smoothly. The characters seemed very unbelievable but they lived that life. A good listen.

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Should've been a f@#ing movie!!!

OMG...This was something totally different. Iceberg changed the game on this one... GREAT STORY

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Moby Dick - Hood Style

This was another good story from Slim. I enjoyed it though the ending was a little dry. This story reminded me of Moby Dick, the hood version!

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Loved the narration story wasn’t the greatest

I got lost in the names because they were so similar. Couldn’t clearly distinguish the characters. The performance made up for the lackluster story.

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Five Stars

A gritty story. Ice berg takes you into the world of the mafia and its dealings of drugs in the hood. Vivid and thrilling.

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iceberg always gives you that heat

awesome book, nice twist and turns till the end, iceberg has always brought that heat

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Iceberg!!!

Fantastic story! Felt like I was in a movie! Super descriptive gruesome scenes. I would recommend

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Hard to follow

This book was all over the place. Not his best work. I could not get into it

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Zzzzzzzz zzzzzz

waste of my time and money I would love my money back, I do not recommend this book

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