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...nearly half a century, Lansky's numbers were his bond. He was, says biographer Robert Lacey, the master of "the share-out," the cash skimmed in the counting rooms of gambling casinos and delivered in tidy, untaxed bundles to silent partners. Some of the scariest, Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, were his friends from bootlegging days on Manhattan's Lower East Side. After the repeal of Prohibition, Lansky moved into organized gambling, where his pals continued to provide the muscle while he supplied the brains...
...scariest prospect of this new violence is that ordinary American citizens are hiring hit-men to bump off their enemies, their competition and anyone they don't really like...
...food addict starts gorging on junk. But somewhere around this point, Theroux begins a tour de force portrait of character disintegration, meticulously detailed and utterly convincing. A clearer sense of who Parker was before he fell apart might have made Chicago Loop a clearer, more uplifting admonitory tale; the scariest possibility is that the anti-hero was no one at all until he found his fate, and his destination, through violence...
Someday, we will all forget--and that is the scariest thing...
...scariest book on the holiday reading list this year...