The Old Turk's Load

✍ Scribed by Gibson, Gregory

• Book ID: 110489007
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 210 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780802193537

✦ Synopsis

A "wonderfully evocative" caper novel for fans of Donald E. Westlake and Elmore Leonard --"a signal pleasure for crime-fiction aficionados" (Booklist).

New Jersey, 1967. Angelo DiNoto is a powerful crime lord who bolsters his empire by importing pure heroin from an old Turkish farmer. But when a five-million-dollar shipment goes missing during the Newark riots, DiNoto isn't the only one to turn over every rock--and bust some heads, arms, and legs--to find it.

A shady developer sees the heroin as the key to rejuvenating his fading business. His daughter Gloria, literally in bed with a band of wannabe revolutionaries, thinks the stash could be her chance to escape her father's influence and impress the woman she truly loves. "The Mailman" is a longtime postal clerk who's survived the worst that life has to offer--until throat cancer robs him of his voice and the will to live. To him, the drugs are a ticket to a better...