![]() Not only will he look like Theo James’s younger, hotter cousin, but he’ll be kind and funny and intelligent and successful and totally not weird. ![]() And you know what I do? I do what I do every time. But still, here I sit, on a hard wooden chair in a quaint London pub, Celine Dion belting out that her heart will go on even when Leonardo di Caprio is long gone. I’m going in blind, people, and it does not feel good. Not even an old person’s Facebook profile. The only problem for me right now is, the guy I’m about to meet is some kind of 90s throwback. I guess the one saving grace of having Google at your fingertips is that you never have to go into a blind date truly blind. I mean, you get your hopes up until they’re jostling with the clouds, only for them to come crashing back down into the weeds when you find out the guy is an idiot, a psychopath, a jerk-or all of the above. ![]() ![]() They’re super awkward and they rarely go well. W PROLOGUE ho likes blind dates? Anyone? Yeah, that’s what I thought. ![]()
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Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin is one of the stories which formed the basis for a section in his posthumously-published work, The Silmarillion, with a version later appearing in The Book of Lost Tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create.Ī sweeping panorama with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, GANGSTER is a novel that travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. 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