Luciano's Luck

Name: Luciano's Luck
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack Higgins
ISBN: 9781441844798

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 01/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

In the Summer of 1943, the Allies were poised to invade Sicily. Yet the price would be high in blood and time—unless the island people rose in revolt against their Nazi oppressors.But only the Mafia could command an uprising, and Mafia supremo Antonia Luca hated everything American. Someone very persuasive indeed was needed to change his mind.And they didn’t come any more persuasive than the man known as Lucky Luciano.…“100 percent proof adventure” —New York Times“Total credibility…a thundering climax… Jack Higgins has done it again." —Yorkshire Post

About Jack Higgins

Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Oleksiy on August 09, 2011

I don't like books about mafia, never managed to get through Puzo's Godfather, but Luciano's Luck was different. I took it because of the Higgins's brand, and the book justified my expectations, I literally swallowed it in a couple of days. Real facts mixed with the Higgins's fiction encouraged me t......more

Goodreads review by Carol on January 31, 2015

Luciano's Luck by Jack Higgins is very short, only two audio tape cassettes. It was a pleasant surprise. Since I had already read some reviews about the fiction in this historical fiction story, I did a little bit of research on this short chapter of history prior to listening to the cassettes. The......more

Goodreads review by Sam on August 12, 2024

Jack Higgins certainly failed the “try to describe a female character without mentioning her breasts” challenge......more

Goodreads review by Jack on September 19, 2010

I didn't know there was a person named Lucky Luciano before reading this. It was just a book I picked off the shelf randomly. I don't understand the title of the novel. With the assortment of characters that Higgins provides, it doesn't make sense to focus on just Luciano, and it doesn't make sense t......more

Goodreads review by Manish on April 03, 2019

This book can be opted to read from the range of best classic novels ever written. The book is plotted in summer of 1943 when Nazis were taking on the war. So, they are all set to invade Sicily but that will cost lives of innocents. Only Mafia can stop this invasion. Luciano's Luck is a story of Luc......more