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“This darkly funny crime novel showcases Heller’s comedic and narrative skills, with hit men, mobsters, and FBI agents loose in Las Vegas.”
— Booklist (starred audio review)
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“As sharp as a straight razor. But a lot more fun. Count me a huge fan.”
— Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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“Harrowing, funny, wise, and heretical, Gangsterland is everything a thriller should be.”
— T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author
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“Gangsterland is rich with complex and meaty characters, but its greatest strength is that it never pulls a punch, never holds back, and never apologizes for life’s absurdities. If this novel were a person, you could ask it for a bookie.”
— Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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“Infinitely readable, infinitely funny, and infinitely better than anything else you’ll read this year!”
— Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author
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“In his plotting, dialogue, and empathy for the bad guys, Goldberg aspires to the heights of Elmore Leonard. For those who miss the master, Gangsterland is a high-grade substitute.”
— New York Times
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“The story is at its best when it’s mocking our unquestioning acceptance of whatever morsels of wisdom our leaders decide to feed us…Gangsterland…is a modern story, written for readers who like their imaginary characters to live in the real world.”
— Los Angeles Book Review
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“A cleverly spun novel that forced me to abandon my wiseguy moratorium. Goldberg has an amusing flair for contemporary hard-boil, and he knows his crime and crime-fighting procedures.”
— Las Vegas Weekly
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“Goldberg’s new book is clever bordering on wise, like Get Shorty on antacid.”
— Los Angeles magazine
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“The Mafia plus the Torah makes for a darkly funny and suspenseful morality tale…[Goldberg] can spin a good yarn.”
— Millions
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“Goldberg injects Talmudic wisdom and a hint of Springsteen into the workings of organized crime and FBI investigative techniques and makes it all work splendidly.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Sal’s transformation—and intermittent edification—into Rabbi Cohen is brilliantly rendered, and Goldberg’s careening plot, cast of memorably dubious characters, and mordant portrait of Las Vegas make this one of the year’s best hard-boiled crime novels.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“Clever plotting, a colorful cast of characters, and priceless situations make this comedic crime novel an instant classic.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“A wholly unique tale from a wholly unique voice.”
— Gregg Hurwitz, author of Hellbent
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“Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.”
— Thomas Perry, author of the Jane Whitefield series
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“Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a dark, funny, and smart page-turning crime story. It’s also a moving, thoughtful meditation on ethics, religion, family, and a culture that eats itself. I loved this book.”
— Sara Gran, author of Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway
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“Gangsterland is Tod Goldberg at the height of his hilarious and incisive and hell-bent powers as a writer of who we are and what we thought we wanted and how we tried to stay alive in America—if we were insanely funny and contemplative hit men. No one does Vegas, the desert, money, and mayhem like Goldberg. I stayed up six nights in a row reading, unable to put this book down because I couldn’t wait to see how he’d play each card.”
— Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here