Son of the Mob

Author: Gordon Korman
Year Published: 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN#: 0786815930
Pages: 262
Media Type: Book
Classification: Fiction
Subject: Organized crime, Interpersonal relations
Genre: Comedy, Action
Reader's Annotation:
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Vince Luca, a teenage boy of seventeen who lives in a family of mobsters. His father, Anthony Luca is the boss of Brothers Vending Machine Inc., a cover-up for the most notorious Mafia in the Tri-State Area. People call him Honest Abe Luca, because he is straight with his dealings and he never rips anyone off. Vince's older brother, however, is the exact opposite. He is portrayed as a hot-head with a temper(Possibly based on[Sonny Corleone]). Vince, although from a mob family, has never intended to pursue his family's line of work, but it becomes inevitable that the business will play a huge role in his life.

The story begins with Vince Luca, who is getting ready for a date with a girl Angela O'Bannon. The date went well until he found out that there was a body in the trunk of his car. Upon seeing this, Angela dumps Vince, and Vince is resentful that his father's line of work has disrupted his life once again. After a football game where Vince Luca appeared to perform well, but in fact his opponent was too scared to tackle the son of the mob, he met Kendra Bightly. He fell in love with Kendra after making out in a frat party, but was reluctant to tell her his father's line of work.

Shortly after he leaves the party, Vince finds out that the job of Kendra's father, coincidentally, is to put his father in prison. Viewing themselves as modern day Romeo and Juliet, they fell more and more in love with each other, until Vince found out that there's an inside man in his father's group. The inside man is revealed to be some guy named Ray who, after a confrontation, flees to Disney world. The story ends when Vince Luca and Kendra Bightly lose the homecoming election, and Vince and Kendra making up and decide to be together despite the odds.

Reading Level: 4
Interest Level: 7-12