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The Last Jewish Gangster: The Middle Years (Paperback)

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The second installment of this saga of gangland lore follows gregarious gangster, Michael Hardy, further down his twisted criminal path. The Last Jewish Gangster, The Middle Years, starts in 1968 with Hardy sentenced to twelve years in the world's most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother's counterfeiting scheme, hoping to have finally earned her love and respect.


Once he's released from prison, Hardy returns to Brooklyn and tries to go straight, but drifts back into a world of crime. He gets Sammy "the Bull" Gravano to join his crew to pull major heists like kidnapping drug lords for million-dollar ransoms, and robbing cop bag men. To evade the law, he goes to Europe and ends up in Israel where he works on a Kibbutz, touching the hem of his Jewish heritage.


Hardy devolves further into a gangster's life when he returns to Brooklyn, running a finger of the Mob's Five-Fingers International Car Theft Ring, participating in a stolen airline ticket scam, and doing fourteen hits for the Mob, still hoping his mother will take notice. When she gets busted for the car theft ring, she turns him in to reduce her time.


Crushed by his mother's callous self-interest, Hardy ends up cutting a deal with Rudy Giuliani to nab a dirty cop to reduce his time and negotiate his place in the witness protection program. Relocating to LA under an alias, it doesn't take long for Hardy to land a gig as muscle for a Hollywood studio and meet his future wife, a sex worker who stole from his mother. The lines between love and revenge begin to blur.

About the Author


David S. Larson wrestled a 300-pound black bear when he was fourteen, full of testosterone and Jesus. That prepared him for a life of storytelling. Larson is an award-winning Fortune 500 marketing executive, has written WEST: Journey Across the Plains; Mr. Meeks (a prequel/sequel to WEST); The Last Jewish Gangster, The Early Years & Middle Years; MAYDAY: A Collection of Short Stories; A Silken Thread screenplay adaptation (with Debbie Allen attached to direct); Savage Reprisal screenplay adaptation; Pit Stop screenplay; ghostwritten a historical fiction fantasy; ghostwrote an autobiography of a boring man, and, ghostwrote two fiction novels, one weaving two separate stories to merge and save a life while falling in love, the other a tale of a global catastrophe which send the world into an ice age and the band of preppers bent on survival. His current projects include the third tome of The Last Jewish Gangster, The Final Years; Kathy's Serial Killer, a fictional account of a true crime thriller; and, The Lamb's Pimp, an account of Larson's teen years raised by evangelical holy-rollers.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781957288079
ISBN-10: 1957288078
Publisher: Wildblue Press
Publication Date: August 16th, 2022
Pages: 372
Language: English