The Best Assassination in the Nation

"A triumphant debut! Crisp prose and rich characterizations... Fans of classic P.I. novels will hope for more from Cohen." Publishers Weekly

Benjamin Gold is damaged goods. After he cracked up in the war and was discharged into a psych ward, his rich wife dumped him. Right after that, the white-shoe law firm that never hired Jews dumped him too; without powerful in-laws, it didn't matter how many cases he won or how much he shortened his name. Unemployable as a lawyer, he wound up working as a private eyeand not exactly at the top of the profession. Drunk and anorectic, his only remaining friends are bartenders and bottles.

After a long string of jilted wives and small-time scams, Gold isn't expecting the beautiful daughter of his legal hero to show up in his office. Especially not with a crazy theory that her fatherrecently shot dead, supposedly in a random robberywas in fact assassinated by order of Cleveland's biggest tycoon, Clayton Forsythe.

To prove Judith Sorin's case, Benjamin Gold has to navigate a web of lies and evasion, a legal establishment that's been bought and paid for, disappearing witnesses, the FBI, surprisingly polite thugs, and the Forsytheswho just happen to be his former in-laws. A tall order for anyone, and Benny Goldstein has never been lucky...

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