Crooks : A Novel About Crime and Family

"Lou Berney's�Crooks�stands with some of the finest crime novels ever written."�- Don Winslow, #1 Internationally bestselling author"A panoramic, cross-generational look at a unique family pursuing their individual visions of the American dream." - Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling authorFrom award-winning author Lou Berney comes an electrifying new novel that follows a uniquely American crime family�on an unforgettable journey across four decades. You've never met a family like the Mercurios. They say the American dream is going farther in life than your parents ever did. But how does that work if your parents are criminals?For�Buddy, a low-level mob wise guy, and�Lillian, a charming pickpocket, the criminal underworld is the only life they've ever known. When they're forced to flee the glittering Babylon of Las Vegas, they end up opening a club in Oklahoma City-a town that quickly feels like a gold mine of fresh marks and easy new money. Along for the ride are their five children, all of them raised into the family business of crime-until the day comes when they each have a chance to make their own way in the world, even if they can never completely escape the family's long, dark shadow.���������Jeremy,�the family's Golden Boy, will throw himself into the glittering excesses of a drug-fueled Hollywood in the roaring 1980s.�Tallulah,�the daredevil, will find herself in the deadly Wild West of post-communist Moscow. Ray,�the dope, the dumb muscle since he was a kid, wants nothing more than to put down his gun, but following orders is all he's ever known.��Alice,�the genius who renounced her life of crime long ago, now sees her white-shoe law firm being blackmailed and must tap into old skills to save both the company and her own life. And�Piggy,�a civilian always on the outside looking in on his crime family, desperate to be part of the gang. Crooks�is an epic�novel about a truly unforgettable family- each Mercurio has to grapple, in their own way, with the family's powerful criminal legacy.