Trinities - Hardcover

Tosches, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385470037 ISBN 13: 9780385470032

Publisher: Doubleday, 1994

Synopsis

The Mafia, Asian drug lords, and Wall Street financiers wage an all-out war for control of the world's multi-billion-dollar heroin trade, while a lawman fights a battle for his own soul

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From the Publisher

Trinities is a tale of evil. At its heart is the story of the apocalyptic final battle for control of the the world's multibillion dollar heroin trade--a battle between America's last generation of Sicilian Mafiosi are rich and ruthless Asian druglords. Set against a vivid backdrop that reaches from the streets of Brooklyn.and Chinatown to the remote and secret power circles of Italy and the Orient, this is a stunning novel populated with characters who are in every way larger than life: opium warlords of the Shan highlands, soulless hitmen and equally soulless yuppie financiers, and a lawman whose journey into the forbidden reaches of his own soul is as compelling as the great conflagration that rages around him. Never before have the worlds of Asian druglords and the Italian mafia been portrayed with such deadly fidelity and insight. Written in lyrical, incandescent prose, Trinities takes us further into these worlds--incendiary, malevolent, and vicious--than any novel has before.

From Kirkus Reviews

Mafia retirees do battle with a new generation of Asian heroin traffickers in this stupefyingly overwritten thriller by Tosches (Dino, 1992, etc.). For years, Johnny Di Pietro, a negotiator for the sanitation workers' union in Brooklyn, has killed time by helping knock off the occasional Puerto Rican drug dealer for loose change, dreaming of leaving his loveless marriage, and planning how he'd someday grab a vaguely envisioned brass ring that would lift him out of his dead-end existence. His big chance comes when his Uncle Joe, a tough-minded Mafia veteran, recruits him for a multibillion-dollar scheme to take back control of the heroin industry from the Asian drug lords now running New York City. Moving Johnny into a swank Upper East Side apartment, flying him to Hong Kong, Burma, and Rome, teasing him with promises of infinite wealth and unlimited freedom, Joe teaches Johnny to lie, steal, and kill to win the fortune at the end of the heroin rainbow. As he brokers international arms deals, murders traitorous colleagues, and plays cat-and-mouse games with foreign dignitaries plying the smack trade, Johnny discovers that the vacuum where his heart used to be can easily be filled with money, power, and the satisfying spectacle of other people's deaths. While negotiating to buy two- thirds of the world's supply of heroin at wholesale prices, Johnny and his cohorts become so preoccupied with identifying the betrayers in their midst that they fail to discern the fate that the Asian dealers have planned for them. But God is apparently on the side of the Italians, as bombs explode in vain, would-be Asian assassins are destroyed, and Johnny walks through the carnage like a blessed man. Tosches's torture scenes are less nauseating than his literary pretensions. (Film rights to MGM; author tour) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0385470037
• ISBN 13: 9780385470032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 435