Bedfellows, Bob Garfield
Bedfellows, Bob Garfield
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Bedfellows

Author: Bob Garfield

Narrator: Alan Marriott

Unabridged: 12 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2012

Synopsis

Jack Schiavone wants to rebuild his life after an embezzlement scandal saw him drummed out of his high-paying advertising job. So he’s reinvented himself as “Mr. Mattress,” a discount bedding franchisee in Ebbets Beach, Brooklyn. Running a mattress store is a nice, quiet life—until Jack gets sucked into a simmering mob war that pits an ambitious Russian crime boss against a softening Italian don.Soon everyone is “going to the mattresses.”Jack falls for the don’s gorgeous black-sheep daughter, a legal aid attorney, making him the target of a jealous wise guy/lounge singer who’s fixated on her too. And his new store manager—the don’s gentle, stamp collecting, cottage cheese–eating former consigliere—proves as good at selling mattresses as he was at cooking the books for the mob. Then the Russians put on a show of force, and the don’s only recourse is to call on the world’s worst hit man: a mild-mannered chiropractor with an innovative killing technique.When the smoke clears, who will be the don of Ebbets Beach?

About Bob Garfield

Bob Garfield is a columnist, broadcast personality, and author. He is co-host of On the Media, a Peabody Award–winning weekly news magazine produced by WNYC and distributed by NPR. He is also co-host of the insanely popular Slate podcast Lexicon Valley, a weekly conversation about language. An inveterate journalist, he is a columnist for both MediaPost and the Guardian and the author of three previous nonfiction books. Another book, yet untitled, will be published in January 2013 by Penguin Portfolio. Garfield has also written for such diverse publications as the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, Sports Illustrated, and Playboy. He lives in suburban Washington, D.C., with his film-producer wife, Milena Trobozic Garfield, and youngest daughter. He can barely locate Brooklyn on a map.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Helen on April 14, 2013

A quite amusing little mob tale. A bit slow at times, bogged down by a lot of back stories, but very full of different characters and it all comes together in the end. A fun book.......more

Goodreads review by Niel on January 30, 2018

Its short chapters read like a series of tiny vignettes, but the whole story comes together in an unexpectedly charming way.......more

Goodreads review by Jacqui on October 27, 2012

Bob Garfield's Bedfellows (Thomas & Mercer 2012) is not what you'd expect from a title that promises a mob-laced thriller. It's humorous, personal, and sometimes long-winded with none of the in-your-face villainy and violence that usually typifies mobs stories. The summary in the forward says it all......more

Goodreads review by Rob on January 23, 2016

Bob Garfield's BEDFELLOWS is sure to be the most hysterical book you have ever read about the topics of organized crime and mob warfare. In the tradition of [[ASIN:0451205766 The Godfather]] and [[ASIN:0345441702 The Sicilian]], this book has Dons, hitmen, beautiful women, and corrupt cops. In addit......more

Goodreads review by Kara on December 31, 2012

Jack Schiavone is starting over after a financial scandal ended his career. He’s now the proud proprietor of Mr. Mattress, a strip mall bedding store in Ebbets Beach, Brooklyn. Unknown to Jack, Ebbets Beach is run and controlled by the mob, in particular the Donato family. He winds up quite close to......more

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