THE SECOND BOOK IN THE CRACKLING NEW SERIES FROM RICHARD WAKE, AN AUTHOR WITH MORE THAN A QUARTER-MILLION SALES!
Henri La Rue is a mob boss who still isnβt really in charge of the family business. The titular head of the family is his Uncle Gerard, and the complications caused by that relationship continue to grow and tangle. But there is more than that, more family, more issues.
Because, whether he likes it or not β and he doesnβt like it β both of Henriβs children have joined the family business. He had been against his son Guy performing anything more than tangential mob duties, but time and circumstances changed all of it and brought the son in to work for the father. And if he had been anti-Guy, Henri had been even more dead-set against his daughter Clarice, a financial whiz, getting within a mile of the La Rue family business. Yet, here she was β involved and successful. And Henri didnβt know how to feel.
The exploits of his children tugged at him. The infidelity of his wife infuriated him. A new series of problems with the rival Levine gang family tested his judgment. And through it all, the physical decline of his Uncle Gerard made Henri question exactly what the future might hold for him.
Power is the second book in the La Rue family crime thriller series. A favorite review of the first book in the series, Conquest, went like this:
βHow does this guy do it? He releases a new book a couple times a year, and no matter what series they are in, the Alex Kovacs WW2 series, or the one about the East German police officer in the 1960's, or this new one, they are just tremendous fun to read. His characters are well done, so real, and his plots are realistic and fascinating. I read every thing ha has published as soon as they are released. This new series is about a crime family in Paris in the late 1950's and he paints quite a vivid scene of the city and the times. Start reading this book and you will soon want all the rest of his books.β
I hope you feel the same way.