Lou Berney: Crooks, Gebunden

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"Lou Berney'sCrooks 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 Timesbestselling author

From 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?

ForBuddy , 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--forty years of peril as each Mercurio has to grapple, in their own way, with the family's powerful criminal legacy.