The Mad Ones: Crazy Joey Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld Free Audiobook Download by Tom Folsom

A year ago, Joey Gallo was fed up with the way things were going. He was sick of the violence and the crime in his home town. So he left and came back with a plan to take over the underworld of Chicago. In The Mad Ones, Tom Folsom takes us through Gallo's life as he moves from being a small-time thief to becoming one of the most feared criminals in Chicago.

Joey Gallo is a hot-tempered punk with a mohawk who uses his fists as weapons. He's also one of the most powerful drug dealers in New York City and runs a gang that has more than two hundred members, including soldiers, car thieves, piano movers, and cooks. His goal is to take over the entire underworld and make himself king. To that end, Joey hires an Irish hitman named Sean "the Blade" Reilly to eliminate competing gangs and kill anyone who might be able to take him down. When he's not setting up his enemies for slaughter, Joey spends time killing people himself-- people from all walks of life: cops, judges (he shoots them in the head), prostitutes (he kills them with ice picks), homeless people (he beats their brains out).

"Crazy Joey Gallo, a tough but tender-hearted Irishman, was the closest thing to a true revolutionary this country has seen since the Civil War, and he died for it."

Working for a crime lord named Joey Gallo, Tom Folsom is living the high life. In his days as an enforcer, he has become accustomed to taking risks for the sake of making money, and so is his boss. But when one of the gang members on their payroll goes bad and starts killing people from Gallo's past, Tom can no longer stomach the lies. He begins investigating on his own and soon finds himself caught in a web of intrigue that leads him to being stranded in Mexico with no way out.

A novel set in New York City during the 1970s, The Mad Ones: Crazy Joey Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld tells the story of Joey Gallo, a young man on the margins of society who falls into a world he often wishes he hadn't.