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The Armageddon Chronicles: A Mafia Epic
On a warm April night in Dallas, a crooked cop and a psychotic drug dealer pay a lethal visit to the bar of Xavier and Min Daniels. Xavier alone survives the night only to be arrested for the murders of his wife and his attacters. The next morning, a retired doctr is thrown to the ground by a car bomb that mangles his home and slaughters his lifelong companion. That same day in Atlantic City, a young Mafioso is gunned down seconds after watching his best friend die in a spray of blood and bullets. Hearing of the attacks on his godfather and childhood friend, Xavier embarks on a quest for vengeance. In order to clear his name and find his enemies, his life will become entwined with a Mafia chieftain's struggle to maintain conrol of his empire, an idealistic and beautiful doctor's efforts to free her people from political oppression, and a nuclear disaster that will affect the destiny of millions. As his search for revenge becomes a fight for survival, he discovers the key of his salvation from long forgotten events in faraway places; the Buckingham Palace of King George V; the muddy trenches of the Russian Front days before the October Revolution; and a mortuary in the heart of Palermo, Sicily. It is in the past that Xavier Daniels, American by birth, Jew by heritage, and Sicilian by circumstance, will find the focus of his rage and the long buried secret of his birthright.
448 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2000
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June 26, 2021
Is it a story about the mafia? About the CIA? About the Russian Pogroms against the Jews? About the Contras versus the Sandinistas? A love story? A cheap romance?
This book feels like it is trying way too hard. Wildly unbelievable situations glossing over real-world challenges. There are bright moments and some of the writing is well done, but overall I am left with a sense that the author simply chose the most convenient path to solve any problems presented to her leading character.
I picked this novel up at a library book sale and I’m glad I paid only $2 for the whole bag of books. This one is going into someone else’s lifeless free library to live on and torture some future unsuspecting reader in my neighborhood.
The point at which this book “jumped the shark” for me was as the main character is rescuing his tough but beautiful soon-to-be love from a firefight in the jungle. Facing overwhelming odds and certain death, she swoons into his arms as an M-60 machine gun chatters in the background and rockets explode around them. He kisses her (in the middle of a fucking battle with bullets flying and rockets exploding? WTF?) and she faints so he heroically caries her through a hail of bullets to his waiting helicopter to fly them back to safety and a continued set of entirely unrealistic situations that feel contrived and ridiculous.
If you happen to pick up this book, I wish you, dear reader, the best of luck in finishing it. I can only hope the author has learned from the writing of this and done anything she can to stop producing drivel like this.
This book feels like it is trying way too hard. Wildly unbelievable situations glossing over real-world challenges. There are bright moments and some of the writing is well done, but overall I am left with a sense that the author simply chose the most convenient path to solve any problems presented to her leading character.
I picked this novel up at a library book sale and I’m glad I paid only $2 for the whole bag of books. This one is going into someone else’s lifeless free library to live on and torture some future unsuspecting reader in my neighborhood.
The point at which this book “jumped the shark” for me was as the main character is rescuing his tough but beautiful soon-to-be love from a firefight in the jungle. Facing overwhelming odds and certain death, she swoons into his arms as an M-60 machine gun chatters in the background and rockets explode around them. He kisses her (in the middle of a fucking battle with bullets flying and rockets exploding? WTF?) and she faints so he heroically caries her through a hail of bullets to his waiting helicopter to fly them back to safety and a continued set of entirely unrealistic situations that feel contrived and ridiculous.
If you happen to pick up this book, I wish you, dear reader, the best of luck in finishing it. I can only hope the author has learned from the writing of this and done anything she can to stop producing drivel like this.
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