Things To Know About The Mobster Crime Novel

By Deborah Anderson


What many people like in books is often related to genre. And there are lots of these available and new ones crop up every year, although the major ones have all been defined and what is new could be innovative mash ups or combinations of the old. Novels that are about detectives and criminals are a mixture of the classic and the new.

Mafiosi are those people identified with the Italian mob groups whose stories could make really fascinating reading, but these actually belong to a longer general tradition that addresses any kind of criminal group as the central focus. A Mobster Crime Novel will therefore include lots of other groups of this kind. But the Sicilian mob in America is certainly a classic item for this kind of book.

You might say this topic had its golden age in some decades past. There were numerous works put out during that time, often adapted for film or television, with gangsters and their molls, the criminal operations, and they way they fight with each other and with their own numbers. Drama is intense for this subject, and the tone is high, serious and often tragic.

Crime is not something that many people go into willingly and the mobsters will be the last to admit that they like it. In fact, there is no liking this thing, but an acceptance and willingness to pay the price of their vocation is carried with laconic wit and mordant humor. The life portrayed here is in constant violent motion and danger.

The saying that criminals pay is often seen with a mitigating factor for folks who do some good, like Robin Hood did, stealing and fighting the rich or the nobles to help the poor. Gangsters may have a quality like this, since they are those who may be fighting against a political system which has oppressed or marginalized them. Their formative foundations could often be for protecting their folks.

The laws will of course be against them but African Americans or Sicilians often say that their groups are fighting and oppressive, unjust system. It will mean their fighting to have better laws, and have them treat everyone equally, getting the ruling group to share power or to step down from laws made by prejudice. Racism, prejudice and discrimination are certainly things that could motivate crime.

The book covering criminal activities and their histories or beliefs, and the dreams of folks involved should be researched well. Authors here could have been part of these groups, and have made it their focus to tell the world how truth works in these groups or movements. These often are real movements having good causes.

Oppression will breed a reaction, and even when the law labels this reaction criminal, it might not be necessarily so in many important respects. The mentioned points are also the points that make the novel type being discussed here successful. They may not directly espouse philosophies but make it inherent in the quality of lives of their characters reflecting known realities.

The points that make the novel in question unique will be about men who have accepted the life of crime despite the danger. These could be ordinary folks, perhaps sympathetic and even very intelligent. The way many seek a book like this is often relevant to how they sympathize with one cause or another.




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