The Last Jew Standing: A Novel

by Michael Simon

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Detective Dan Reles gets caught between his father and a gangster with a passion for other people?s pain

Lieutenant Dan Reles has a new house, a beautiful wife, a son, and a great career as head of Austin Homicide. But when his ex-con father?a Mafia leg-breaker?shows up after twenty years on the lam, Dan learns that the sins of the father are, true to form, visited upon the son.

Dan?s father has crossed Sam Z elig?the last of the Jewish crime bosses. Z elig is intent on extracting his pound of flesh. But when he can?t get what he wants the easy way, he takes the city itself hostage, forcing Dan to choose between the town he?s sworn to protect, his new family, and his father.
  • ISBN10 014311431X
  • ISBN13 9780143114314
  • Publish Date 25 November 2008 (first published 16 August 2007)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Penguin USA