When A Rook Takes The Queen, Edward Izzi
When A Rook Takes The Queen, Edward Izzi
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When A Rook Takes The Queen

Author: Edward Izzi

Narrator: Edward Hermann (Synthesised), Synthesised Voice

Unabridged: 12 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2021


Synopsis

This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration. 
Chicago Tribune Reporter Larry McKay has his hands full. He has been assigned to investigate the recent assassination of Chicago’s Mayor Janice Kollar in a tumultuous summer that has included riots, looting, and a city out of control. With Mayor Kollar’s long list of political enemies, McKay doesn’t know where to start. But he soon discovers a weekly gambit at St. Simeon’s Church Rectory on West 79th Street between two of Chicago’s most notable individuals; Former grand chess master and now Catholic priest, political activist Fr. Colin J. Fitzgerald, and organized crime boss Anthony ‘Little Tony’ DiMatteo. Their weekly chess matches have allowed ‘Fr. Fitz’ to become the new family consigliere, and he is now Little Tony’s most trusted advisor. Together, they have been plotting ways to circumvent the recent city violence using ‘The Outfit’s’ brutal methods to control its gangs and outlaws and bring peace back to the Windy City. But their unusual plan to restore peace to an already violent city begins to unravel, delving the Second City deeper and deeper into an uncontrollable state of intense chaos. McKay’s life is now in danger, as the ‘Chicago Gambit’ of real-life players are now all out to permanently silence the Tribune reporter from blowing up the city’s biggest crime story since the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Edward on April 21, 2021

Amazing political thriller about Chicago and all of its current chess players!......more

Goodreads review by Becca on August 27, 2023

I am really loving this author. He take on crime, church and more just leave me riveted. Crime, politics and church seem to have gone on since the beginning of time, an the author takes you on a journey that just leave you wanting more. Especially with the topics of death and 'who' it was that died.......more

Goodreads review by Louise on March 28, 2023

Plot-driven, the book is a slow-burn and gritty story. The story mixes politics and crime, purposefully implementing the rules of chess. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.......more