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The Mayor of Polk Street

A Novel of Narrows Gate

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The Mayor of Polk Street

By: Jim Fusilli
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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As America finds its footing in the post-World War II years, violence has decimated the Mafia’s leadership in the US and in Italy. Renegade gangsters are dispatching their own form of justice. Chaos rules the streets of New York.

When the mob war spills over into Narrows Gate, a gritty New Jersey waterfront town, the young grocer Sal Benno must fight to hold his Polk Street community together. His lifelong friend Leo Bell - one foot in Narrows Gate, the other stepping toward a brighter future - finds his burgeoning career at CBS in jeopardy as the Red Scare threatens the powerful network. And neither can escape the gravitational pull of the mob.

Sal and Leo will be drawn into a web of intrigue that stretches from Las Vegas and Hollywood to Sicily and Greece, from Havana and Buenos Aires to New York’s back alleys and halls of power. Inevitably, though, the fate of Sal and Leo - and the women they love - will be written in the streets of their home town as they struggle to maintain their friendship amid the madness that drives them to a desperate edge.

©2019 Jim Fusilli (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC. Historical Thriller & Suspense Mafia Mystery Suspense Emotionally Gripping Latin America Italy Fiction

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About the Creator

Jim Fusilli is the author of 9 novels including The Mayor of Polk Street, an Audible Original, and its predecessor Narrows Gate, which Mystery Scene magazine said, "must be ranked among the half-dozen most memorable novels about the Mob." Jim’s debut novel Closing Time was the last work of fiction set in New York City published prior to the 9/11 attacks. The following year, his A Well-Known Secret addressed the impact of 9/11 on the residents of lower Manhattan. His subsequent novels include Tribeca Blues and Hard, Hard City. Closing Time, A Well-Known Secret, and Tribeca Blues were reissued by Open Road Media in October 2018. Lawrence Block provided a new foreword for Closing Time. The former Rock and Pop critic of the Wall Street Journal and occasional contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered, Jim is the author of two books of nonfiction including Pet Sounds, his tribute to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys’ classic album. A favorite of novelists inspired by contemporary pop music, it was translated for a Japanese language edition by Haruki Murakami.

Edoardo Ballerini

About the Performer

Edoardo Ballerini has narrated over 250 audiobooks and appeared in over 50 films and television series, including The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. His 2013 recording of Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins was named Audible’s Audiobook of the Year and earned him the Audie Award for Best Solo Narration. He won a second Audie Award for Best Male Narrator, for his reading of Dean Koontz’s Watchers in 2019. He recently completed work on Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, which has garnered international acclaim. He lives in New York.

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