THE OLD TURK'S LOAD

A million-dollar load of Mafia heroin from an "Old Turk" gets waylaid during the 1967 Newark riots. A motley assortment of thieves, opportunists, slimeballs, and a few decent folk are out to find it. This Gregory Gibson novel is rife with characters, perhaps too many, who fight and kill in their attempts to get their hands on the drugs. There are so many people that it's difficult to keep them straight in the audiobook version. Narrator R.C. Bray sounds like an old-time movie newscaster with his punchy Walter Winchell delivery. Kudos to him for imitating a man with a laryngectomy who emerges as a main character. M.S. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2013]