Luciano's luck [Hardcover]

Jack Higgins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1982

Charles "Lucky" Luciano is America's most powerful mobster. He even dominates the underworld from prison with a deadly strong arm. In the mountains of Nazi-occupied Sicily, a 23-year-old nun and a suave British intelligence operative parachute with Lucky from the air on a mission. They are to enlist the aid of the Sicilian Mafia to pave the way for the Allied invasion of Italy. 6 cassettes.

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Editorial Reviews

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Dove Audio goes to the head of the pack with this exciting, unabridged rendition of Higgins's (Sheba, Audio Reviews, LJ 2/15/95) story of an Allied plan to release Lucky Luciano from prison. Luciano is slated to join a team that includes the granddaughter of Luciano's Mafia counterpart in Sicily and a crack Special Services operative. Their objective: to persuade the Don to rally the people of Sicily to aid the Allies in their effort to run the Axis forces off the island, paving the way for the Allied invasion of Italy. The action builds to a riveting climax and concomitant bloody conclusion. British actor and former Avenger Patrick Macnee is required to juggle Sicilian, German, American, and Ukrainian accents and does so superbly. Best of all, this unabridged recording is reasonably priced. Recommended for most public libraries.?Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, N.C.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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“Jack Higgins is the master.” —Tom Clancy

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 365 pages
• Publisher: G.K. Hall (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816133042
• ISBN-13: 978-0816133048
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,202,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jack Higgins is among the world's most popular authors. Since the publication of The Eagle Has Landed--one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time--every novel he has written has become an international bestseller, including The White House Connection and Day of Reckoning. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and has been published in thirty-eight languages worldwide. Many of his books have been made into successful movies, among them The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch A King, and The Valhalla Exchange. He lives with his wife on Jersey in the Channel Islands.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Luciano's Luck is a very well constructed novel., April 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Luciano's Luck: Luciano's Luck (Paperback)

Luciano's Luck is a wonderfully written novel about
the US government's desperate attempt to persuade
the Mafia to assist them during World War II.
Don Antonio Luca, the "Boss of All Bosses"
of the Mafia in Sicily has the power to drive all
Nazi forces out of Italy and Sicily, but he has an extreme dislike for Americans
and is reluctant to help them in any way.
Only two people have the slightest chance of persuading
him: his only granddaughter who ran away
from him years ago, and Lucky Luciano, the
most feared gangster in America.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Higgins Turns a Plot, January 3, 2008

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Benjamin Devey "LearningLove.com" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Luciano's Luck (Mass Market Paperback)

Carter is a former agent with ground knowledge in the hills of Sicily, where the Allied landing forces will need the cooperation of resistance fighters to avoid heavy losses to the occupying German forces. Carter has to recruit Luciano, a convict with Mafia ties, and Maria who has fled the mother country to escape the abuses of the underworld, represented by her grandfather, the key figure needed to coalesce the resistance fighters with the Allied cause.

After I read a couple of mentions of Higgins in books on writing, I pulled this off the library shelf. Higgins knows how to get right into the action of a story and move the plot to adventure. He skillfully sets all the elements in place to give a dramatic story with action and conflict. The characters are a step above cardboard cut-outs, serving to propel events, and scenes are quick-cut, keeping the reading at a brisk pace. In all, it's a quick read that isn't entirely predictable.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book..........., September 24, 2002

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Ken (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Luciano's Luck (Audio Cassette)

A delightful change of pace as far as the main hero (Luciano) is concerned. Higgins does the WWII background well no matter what the story. (or plot) He manages to stick to his facts from other novel about the "Mafia Connection" and German forces. Though some of these facts are repetitive he manages to keep his readers on the edge with this change of pace (and hero).