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    Gangsterland

    By Tod Goldberg

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    Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, able 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: hide out as a Rabbi in Las Vegas.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTitan Books
    Release dateApr 10, 2015
    ISBN9781783298426
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    Tod Goldberg

    Tod Goldberg is the author of more than a dozen books, including Gangsterland, a finalist for the Hammett Prize; The House of Secrets, which he co-authored with Brad Meltzer; and the crime- tinged novels Living Dead Girl, an LA Times Book Prize finalist, and Fake Liar Cheat, plus five novels in the popular Burn Notice series. He is also the author of the story collection Simplify, a 2006 finalist for the SCIBA Award for Fiction and winner of the Other Voices Short Story Collection Prize, and Other Resort Cities. His essays, journalism, and criticism have appeared in many publications, including the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, Las Vegas Weekly, and Best American Essays, and have won five Nevada Press Association Awards. He lives in Indio, California, where he directs the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside.

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    • 3/5
      Rabbi David Cohen used to be Chicago Mafia hitman Sal Cupertino. When he is caught up in a drug deal gone wrong and kills several undercover FBI agents, he knows big trouble awaits him. But the Mafia has a plan and, after several surgeries and some rigorous training, he emerges as Rabbi Cohen and becomes the leader of a congregation in Las Vegas. But a rogue FBI agent is after him, determined to avenge the deaths of his three colleagues. And the rabbi misses his family. The book, filled with believable, well-developed characters, offers readers an interesting [if absurd] premise, and spins a dark tale of mayhem and lessons learned.
    • 3/5
      Sort of a Pygmalion-meets-Lillehammer-and-Dexter story in which a Chicago Mafia hitman is forced to go underground, reappearing in Las Vegas as a rabbi. He's not bad at the job, but his past follows him, as does the memory of his beloved wife and child--and an FBI agent he'd believed dead.It's an odd, mostly fun book, with some rather harrowing violence. I would give this 3 1/2 stars if I could. Not quite 4; there's a bit too much explanation, and a couple of strokes of luck and loose and abrupt ends that I didn't feel were completely convincing. But the characters are interesting, and I liked very much that the reader doesn't get to know everyone's secrets, and doesn't need to.