[PDF] Gangsterland eBook

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1619029685

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"Sal Cupertine is back—and better than ever. I love this guy." —Lee Child "Gangster Nation is a razor. It will slice you open and reveal your insides. And like the best of Tod Goldberg's work, it'll show you everything you are at your core." —Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of The President's Shadow It's been two years since the events of Gangsterland, when legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine disappeared into the guise of Vegas Rabbi David Cohen. 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. But Sal wants out. He’s got money stashed in safe–deposit boxes all over the city. He’s looking at places to escape to, Mexico or maybe Argentina. 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. Across 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. 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. Gangster Nation is a thrilling follow–up to Gangsterland, an unexpected, page–turning examination of the seedy foundations of American life. With the wit and gritty glamor that defines his writing, Goldberg traces how the things we most value in our lives—home, health, even our spiritual lives—have been built on the enterprises of criminals.

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1640095268

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Raymond Carver meets Elmore Leonard in this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writing set in the critically acclaimed Gangsterland universe, a series called "gloriously original" by The New York Times Book Review. With gimlet-eyed cool and razor-sharp wit, these spare, stylish stories from a master of modern crime fiction assemble a world of gangsters and con men, of do-gooders breaking bad and those caught in the crossfire. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several desert towns trying to escape the unexplainable loss of an adopted daughter; a drug dealer with a penchant for karaoke meets a talkative lawyer and a silent clown in a Palm Springs bar. Witty, brutal, and fast-paced, these stories expand upon the saga of Chicago hitman-turned-Vegas-rabbi Sal Cupertine--first introduced in Gangsterland and continued in Gangster Nation--while revealing how the line between good and bad is often a mirage.

Author : Ansha Kotyk
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 9781939309006

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Fourteen-year-old Jonathan Brooks would like nothing more than to relax for a few hours and read his comic book. But Gangsterland is no ordinary comic book. When Jonathan actually disappears inside the books, he's dropped into a world of dueling gangsters, a flapper with a fantastic secret and a murder that binds them all. He must decide to become the hero or the final page may trap him inside forever.

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616951672

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After his estranged wife disappears, a husband returns to the remote lake house where their young daughter died, and he soon loses his grip on reality. Paul Luden has been haunted by a memory he can't recall. Whatever happened to his marriage, to his two-year-old daughter, is too traumatic to remember, so his unconscious has chosen to block out key details. But when he receives a phone call from the small lake town where they'd lived, telling him that no one had seen or heard from his wife in ten days, he knows what he has to do. He and his nineteen-year-old girlfriend drive from L.A. to Washington State where he's forced to confront his past. And as he pieces together his buried memories, Paul unravels mentally, falls into self-destructive trances and ultimately discovers the truth about his wife.

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Other Voices
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780981589992

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A perfect balance of humor and pathos, Other Resort Cities is Goldberg at his best.

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2000-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743400569

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Lonnie is drawn by Claire from his ordinary life of theft and blackmail into the world of L.A.'s ritzy nightlife. Along the way, he becomes an underground legend.

Author : Brad Meltzer
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455559504

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A secret worth killing for, a woman with no past, and an act of treason that changed America: #1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer returns with The House of Secrets. "When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name. She's told she's been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother. But she can't remember any of it, because of her own traumatic brain injury. Then a man from the FBI shows up, asking questions about her dad -- and about his connection to the corpse of a man found with an object stuffed into his chest: a priceless book that belonged to Benedict Arnold. Back at her house, Hazel finds guns that she doesn't remember owning. On her forehead, she sees scars from fights she can't recall. Most important, the more Hazel digs, the less she likes the person she seems to have been. Trying to put together the puzzle pieces of her past and present, Hazel Nash needs to figure out who killed this man -- and how the book wound up in his chest. The answer will tell her the truth about her father, what he was really doing for the government -- and who Hazel really is. Mysteries need to be solved. Especially the ones about yourself."

Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062877178

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R.F. Kuang, Kate Elliott, Ken Liu, Todd McCaffrey, Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, and other modern masters of fantasy and science fiction put their unique spin on the greatest of mythical beasts—the dragon—in never-before-seen works written exclusively for this fantasy anthology compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan and with art by Rovina Cai! Here there be dragons . . . From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations. Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today— Garth Nix, Scott Lynch, R.F. Kuang, Ann Leckie & Rachel Swirsky, Daniel Abraham, Peter S. Beagle, Beth Cato, Zen Cho, C. S. E Cooney, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kate Elliott, Theodora Goss, Ellen Klages, Ken Liu, Seanan Maguire, Patricia A McKillip, K. J. Parker, Kelly Robson, Michael Swanwick, Jo Walton, Elle Katharine White, Jane Yolen, Kelly Barnhill, Brooke Bolander, Sarah Gailey, and J. Y. Yang—and illustrated by award-nominated artist Rovina Cai with black-and-white line drawings specific to each entry throughout, this extraordinary collection vividly breathes fire and life into one of our most captivating and feared magical creatures as never before and is sure to become a treasured keepsake for fans of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tales.

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161902408X

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"[An] exciting and darkly funny crime novel." —C. Moon Read, Las Vegas Weekly, 1 of Our 20 Favorite Books of the Past Twenty Years 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. Until now, that is. His first–ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical idea to save his own skin. A few surgeries and some intensive training later, and Sal Cupertine is gone, disappeared into the identity of Rabbi David Cohen. Leading his growing congregation in Las Vegas, overseeing the population and the temple and the new cemetery, Rabbi Cohen feels his wicked past slipping away from him, surprising even himself as he spouts quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament. Yet, as it turns out, the Mafia isn't quite done with him yet. Soon the new cemetery is being used as both a money and body–laundering scheme for the Chicago family. And that rogue FBI agent on his trail, seeking vengeance for the murder of his three fellow agents, isn't going to let Sal fade so easily into the desert. Gangsterland is the wickedly dark and funny new novel by a writer at the height of his power—a morality tale set in a desert landscape as ruthless and barren as those who inhabit it.

Author : Tod Goldberg
Publisher : Super 8 éditions
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 237056041X

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Un rabbin à Las Vegas : ça va saigner ! " Infiniment lisible, infiniment drôle, et infiniment meilleur que tout ce que vous pourrez lire cette année. " Craig Johnson Tueur à la solde de la mafia de Chicago, Sal Cupertine est ce qui se fait de mieux dans le genre : discret, redoutablement efficace et doté d'une mémoire hors norme, il ne laisse jamais la moindre trace derrière lui. Jusqu'au jour où une opération tourne mal – très mal. Après avoir été contraint d'éliminer trois agents du FBI, Sal quitte la ville, caché dans un camion réfrigéré. Sa carrière est terminée. À moins que... Une opération chirurgicale plus tard, Sal Cupertine n'est plus : il a laissé la place au rabbin David Cohen, officiant à Las Vegas. À sa propre surprise, notre homme, désormais capable de citer des passages entiers du Talmud, se prend au jeu. Mais ses employeurs n'en ont pas terminé avec lui. Le cimetière dont Cohen a la responsabilité est utilisé par la mafia comme plaque tournante de trafics en tout genre et, pour ne rien arranger, le FBI est toujours à ses trousses. Bandit d'un côté, homme de Dieu de l'autre, Sal ne va pas s'en tirer si aisément !