Conflicting Loyalties
Aiden Gabor
Genre:
Biography
Title: Conflicting Loyalties
Author: Â Aiden Gabor
Genre: Â Memoir
Publisher: Skyhorse
Date Published: 2023
Book Length: 256
Format: Â E Book provided by the ESI Network in return for an honest review
Star Rating: 5***** I loved it and highly recommend
About Book: Aiden Gabor was still a teenager when Department of Justice agents approached him with an ultimatum: spend his life in prison for racketeering, embezzlement, extortion, and conspiracy to commit murder, or become an undercover agent. Conflicting Loyalties is a sharp, honest memoir in three parts: the bloody life of a mob soldier from outside la famiglia; the death-defying, paranoid existence of an informant bringing down corrupt politicians and police departments from the inside; and unexpectedly finding peace late in life through the Baha’i faith while coping with an ALS diagnosis. Conflicting Loyalties is a visceral tale of a man who gambles with his own life in order to save it, dodging his fate while searching for an identity, a father, and a family.
My Thoughts: Conflicting Loyalties by Aiden Gabor is a memoir of a double life as a Mafia enforcer and a Department of Justice informant. The book starts off when Aiden is young and gets pulled into the darker side of life which hooks you in right from the very beginning. The writing is excellent and the prose flows so well, I didn’t want to put the book down so much so that I read it in two sittings.
What makes this book so powerful is the fact that the book is a raw, honest look at the life of an informant through the eyes of Aiden himself. It oozes with fear from both sides of the fence and shows the consequences he faces emotionally as well as physically. I could feel the sadness from Aiden caught in this ever-spiralling trap.
I did think that some of the chapters were slightly long, but that did not detract from the overall story being told.
Gabor's prose is elegant even in a world of death and corruption painting a vivid picture of life as an informant and one I thoroughly recommend if you love reading about real life.
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