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Ride a Tiger: A Novel 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Ride a Tiger is the kind of spellbinding
novel that comes along all too rarely The
ghetto of New York s Lower East Side, the
trenches of World War I, hijackings at sea
during Prohibition, pre- and post-Castro
Cuba, Israel, and Las Vegas are only a few
of its dramatic backdrops. And always at
its center is the figure of Leo Gorodetsky,
loyal to his friends, ruthless to his ene-
mies, the only Jew to rise to the highest
councils of the Mafia.
Born to poverty at the turn of the cen-
tury, Leo might have, at another time and
another place, become president of a giant
corporation. Instead he turns his brilliant
business mind and organizational talents
to defying the law. In his own words,
"Gambling is a business. Entered into for
profit, just as a farmer grows corn for
profit. It is a business endeavor no differ-
ent from General Motors, or the telephone
company,or the corner drugstore."
He has learned his lessons from the bot-
tom up first when he drops out of school
at fifteen to manage a neighborhood craps
game. then in the state reformatory, where
he has been sent after his boss s wife has
sexually induced him to join her in a fool-
ish scheme, and finally on the battlefields
of France, where he discovers what hero-
ism really means.
Ride a Tiger: A Novel 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书