
Raising a Gangster
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Narrateur(s):
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Annie Aldington
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Auteur(s):
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Kerry Barnes
À propos de cet audio
A gripping story of revenge - the prequel to Cruel Secrets - from the gangland governor, Kerry Barnes!
Bermondsey, London. With an absent father and a penniless mother, Cyril Reardon is determined to be the man of the house. As young as eight, Cyril is a charmer, a planner, and a risk-taker. A rare trip to the country, shows Cyril a completely different world, and it opens his eyes to how the other half lives.
A young man wants Cyril shot dead but receives a nasty scar and a few injuries that set him on a path of revenge. Little does he know that all the time he was being raised a lord, Cyril Reardon was being raised a gangster.
Only one of them is a gentleman. Only one of them plays the cards they were dealt.
©2020 Kerry Barnes (P)2020 W F HowesCe que les auditeurs disent de Raising a Gangster
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- Langer MD
- 2025-06-25
Meh. Not Great.
Kerry Barnes offers a story about a hard-scrabble kid/one-day criminal figure ('Cyril Reardon'). The narrative starts out feeling like a 1980s version of a hopelessness-saturated Dickensian tale and turns into a tale about a crime-boss in evolution. Motivated by the desire to help out desperate-straits mother 'Peggy' and under the tutelage of local gangster 'Mr. Bates', Cyril evolves into a public menace with mindblowingly inconsistent redeeming features (Barnes explores an admirable 'Oliver Twist' personality but describes a horrible Sociopath). In the meantime, a spoiled little aristocrat stabbed by Cyril as a child ('Lord Byron Chambers') reappears as an adult to challenge Cyril's "self-made" dominance with his "golden-spoon" privilege.
This book was interesting but jaw-droppingly unreasonable. Readers are manipulated & somehow expected to have sympathy for a straight-up scumbag of a character.
As to presentation: Reader Annie Aldington absolutely nails the tone of the book - and her underclass Cockney/Eastender accents are spot-on - but I found her diction, timbre, and cadence distinctly "average". QUEST Audio (W.F. Howes Ltd.) could have gotten similar results from any professional in their stable of narrators.
Altogether, 'Raising A Gangster' merits 5/10 stars. I didn't find it particularly captivating.. but - despite reservations with Barnes's themes - it was a reasonable distraction to have playing in the background while I did other things. If it leaves the 'Plus' menu, however, spend your Credit on something else.
[Note: if you've ever known someone who died in the grips of a drug addiction, glorifying underworld thugs like Cyril is actually nauseating. Scorsese, I can handle, but..]
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