
The Gonif
by Andy Weinberger
Title:
The Gonif
Author:
Andy Weinberger
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
259 pages, Full-color photography
Publisher:
Turner Publishing Company - IPS
ISBN-13:
9781684421329
EAN:
9781684421329
Classifications:
Crime and Mystery
Weight (g):
560
Dimensions (mm):
150 x 225 x 23
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
LAs oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe has returned to stop a heist before it happens in the exciting fifth installment of the Amos Parisman Mystery series! To escape the predations of the Nazis, a rare two-hundred-year-old Torah is quietly smuggled out of a doomed North African Jewish community in the dead of night and put aboard a ship. Eventually, it makes its way to safety across the Atlantic. Generations after the war has ended, it resides in obscurity in a small, rundown Sephardic temple in Hollywood. The peace is shattered, however, when suddenly someone tries to break in and abscond with it.Amos Parisman, a local, agnostic, aging gumshoe, is recruited to thwart the would-be burglar. This sets him off on a madcap plunge into the world of international art and antiquities, and the ruthless kind of people who will stop at nothingnot even murderto own them.The Gonif parses the difference between true wisdom and the coarse material world.











