"Sal Cupertine is backāand better than ever. I love this guy." āLee 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." āBrad 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. Itās 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 cemeteryāwhere Cohen has been laundering bodies for the mobāis minting cash. But Sal wants out. Heās got money stashed in safeādeposit boxes all over the city. Heās looking at places to escape to, Mexico or maybe Argentina. He only needs to make it through the High Holidays, and heāll 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 offātime stalking members of The Family, looking for vengeance for the murder of his former partner. So when Salās cousin stumbles into the casino one night, Matthew takes the law into his own handsāagainātouching off a series of events that will have Rabbi Cohen running for his life, trapped in Las Vegas, with the law, society, and the postā9/11 world closing in around him.
Gangster Nation is a thrilling followāup to Gangsterland, an unexpected, pageāturning 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 livesāhome, health, even our spiritual livesāhave been built on the enterprises of criminals.
"Sal Cupertine is backāand better than ever. I love this guy." āLee 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." āBrad 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. Itās 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 cemeteryāwhere Cohen has been laundering bodies for the mobāis minting cash. But Sal wants out. Heās got money stashed in safeādeposit boxes all over the city. Heās looking at places to escape to, Mexico or maybe Argentina. He only needs to make it through the High Holidays, and heāll 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 offātime stalking members of The Family, looking for vengeance for the murder of his former partner. So when Salās cousin stumbles into the casino one night, Matthew takes the law into his own handsāagainātouching off a series of events that will have Rabbi Cohen running for his life, trapped in Las Vegas, with the law, society, and the postā9/11 world closing in around him.
Gangster Nation is a thrilling followāup to Gangsterland, an unexpected, pageāturning 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 livesāhome, health, even our spiritual livesāhave been built on the enterprises of criminals.