"Sal Cupertine is backтАФand better than ever. I love this guy." тАФLee 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." тАФBrad 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. ItтАЩs 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 cemeteryтАФwhere Cohen has been laundering bodies for the mobтАФis minting cash. But Sal wants out. HeтАЩs got money stashed in safeтАУdeposit boxes all over the city. HeтАЩs looking at places to escape to, Mexico or maybe Argentina. He only needs to make it through the High Holidays, and heтАЩll 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 offтАУtime stalking members of The Family, looking for vengeance for the murder of his former partner. So when SalтАЩs cousin stumbles into the casino one night, Matthew takes the law into his own handsтАФagainтАФtouching off a series of events that will have Rabbi Cohen running for his life, trapped in Las Vegas, with the law, society, and the postтАУ9/11 world closing in around him.
Gangster Nation is a thrilling followтАУup to Gangsterland, an unexpected, pageтАУturning 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 livesтАФhome, health, even our spiritual livesтАФhave been built on the enterprises of criminals.