Blue Thunder

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Summary: Thrilling, Enlightening, and Scary!!! A true eye operner!!!
Review: This book will have you pinned to your drop out bolster seats while it navigates the treacherous waters of La Cosa Nostra, Money, Drugs, Politics, and the excercise of Power!!! Expect to feel shivers and astonishment at the scope and depth of organized crimes influence throughout our society!!!Follow the rise and fall of the world's most prolific and successful high speed boat builder and racer. Investigating the assasination of Don Aranow leads the author down an intentionally muddied river filled with danger. George Bush, J. Edgar Hoover, Myer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, John Kennedy, Alan Cranston, Sammy Davis Jr., James Caan, Fidel Castro, King Hussein, Gary Hart, Baby Doc Duvalier, Manuel Noriega, Jeb Bush, and Janet Reno are a few of the names that will turn up with curious connections to the octopuss known as Organized Crime!!

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Summary: Blue Thunder swerves just short of the finish
Review: Well researched and eye opening, Blue Thunder, perhaps in an attempt to appear too responsible pulls its punches or fails to see the big picture. Briefly Don Aronow, speedboat racer and manufacturer, was a good friend of then Vice-President but running for President George Bush who helped Aronow get the Customs contract for drug interdiction "Blue Thunder" Speedboats. He ended up murdered gangland style just prior to his being called to testify before a federal grand jury, a fact no one outside of the federal government could have known. Curiously, Aronow was also partners with Donnie Soffer (employer of Donna Rice of Gary Hart fame and the ill-fated "Monkey Business" yacht) as well as Ben Kramer, drug smuggler and nephew of Meyer Lansky. Something rotten in Miami? You bet your Janet Reno. R. Roy Blake 14200 First Avenue South #202, Burien, WA 98168