So he agrees to their radical idea to save his own skin.Ī few surgeries and some intensive training later, and Sal Cupertine is gone, disappeared into the identity of Rabbi David Cohen. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. So when Sal's cousin stumbles into the casino one night, Matthew takes the law into his own hands-again-touching off a series of events that will have Rabbi Cohen running for his life, trapped in Las Vegas, with the law, society, and the post-9/11 world closing in around him. He only needs to make it through the High Holidays, and he'll have enough money to slip away, grab his wife and kid, and start fresh.Īcross the country, former FBI agent Matthew Drew is now running security for an Indian Casino outside of Milwaukee, spending his off-time stalking members of The Family, looking for vengeance for the murder of his former partner. He's looking at places to escape to, Mexico or maybe Argentina.
He's got money stashed in safe-deposit boxes all over the city. It's September of 2001 and for David, everything is coming up gold: Temple membership is on the rise, the new private school is raking it in, and the mortuary and cemetery-where Cohen has been laundering bodies for the mob-is minting cash. Published: Counterpoint - September 12th, 2017 His most recent work was co-authoring My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor, with Keith Morris. He also writes book reviews for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Southern CA literary program Vermin on the Mount founder Jim writes about books for San Diego CityBeat and punk rock for non-profit independent music zine Razorcake. Special Guest Host Jim Ruland is a self-declared "writer, sailor, punk, rat." per his website. The sacred gets the stuffing kicked out of it by the profane in this wild and sometimes-shocking novel.” Kirkus Reviews on Gangster Nation, “Boasting less outlandish humor than Gangsterland but far more ambition, the sequel conducts extended discussions on how America is defined by crime, boldly linking gangland violence to the 9/11 attacks…but the second time around, Sal/David’s mixing of Talmudic citations with Bruce Springsteen lyrics is still very funny. Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including a pair of short story collections, and ten novels, including The House of Secrets , and Gangsterland a finalist for the Hammett Prize.
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