The opening credits of "The Sopranos" contain more dramatic punch than "Gangster. The hackneyed plot reads like an entry for a Mario Puzo write-alike contest minus the boilerplate sex scenes. He also wrote the controversial "Sleepers," a purportedly autobiographical book about his troubled Hell's Kitchen youth that delved into the violent world of Manhattan's Irish mobsters.īut "Gangster" intended as a sweeping epic spanning several decades in the evolution of New York organized crime adds absolutely nothing new to the canon. In his latest crime novel, "Gangster," author Lorenzo Carcaterra grabs readers from the first line "I had come to watch him die" then promptly loses them with a recycled, melodramatic mafia story rife with clunky exposition and dialogue.Ĭarcaterra is no stranger to gangland tales.
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