Mile high [Paperback]

Richard Condon (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: Dial Press (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385276419
• ISBN-13: 978-0385276412
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,576,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars volevo essere un ballerino, May 5, 2002

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Slade Allenbury (Placerville, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mile High (Hardcover)

Richard Condon's "Mile High" is one of the smartest, most exciting thrillers in the entire canon of American popular fiction. It was published the same year as Mario Puzo's "The Godfather." Both books feature a mafia leader known as Don Vito (interestingly, each book also has a minor character named Coppolla). There are numerous similarities between Puzo's book and Condon's, but Condon's is definitely the more intelligent and ambitious of the two. The story hits upon many of the highlights (or, perhaps, lowlights) of American history: slavery, Prohibition, the Great Depression, McCarthyism, etc. The book starts out like a runaway train, and concludes with one of the most gripping showdowns in print. There is about a 100-page stretch early in the book where Condon slows his plot down with excessive detail about the family business that is at the core of this superthriller. But from about page 200 onward, the novel is as inescapable as car careening through the loops and lifts of really devious roller-coaster.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, October 29, 1998

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Gerald Lipsky - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mile High (Hardcover)

I defy eny reader of this book to conclude that it is a novel or a non-fiction work.It is absolutely breath taking - I couldn't put it down. A terrific read. I found it in a library in Palm Springs. If you can find a copy, it will be worth your time!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kennedy worship, October 10, 2009

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Charles Hinners (Waunakee, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mile high (Paperback)

Richard Condon's account of Edward Courance West parallels the selling of the Kennedy myth by the master con of all--Joe Kennedy. Worth reading about every 10 years to see how far down the slope we have come.