The Gonif

By Andy Weinberger

Book Overview

LA's 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 nothing--not even murder--to own them.

The Gonif parses the difference between true wisdom and the coarse material world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684421306
• ISBN13: 9781684421305
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Prospect Park Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 4.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"