A "thrilling guts-and-glory look inside the Israeli organized crime machine of 1980s New York City...The wild ride Copeland unfurls has all the insane highs and lows an audience familiar with Blow and Wiseguy expects, and they don't disappoint...a story so entertaining that, were it not rooted in such ably handled characters—at once despicable, pitiable and human—it might be unbelievable."
- Publishers Weekly
"Copeland...crafted the true story of life inside the Israeli mafia with the literary style and pacing of a novel."
- Pittsburgh City Paper
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In the 1980s, a small group of Israeli nationals set up one of the most lucrative crime syndicates in New York City’s history. With rackets ranging from drug dealing to contract killing, the gang’s crime spree was so violent that it wasn’t long before crime reporters for New York’s tabloids had dubbed the crew the “Israeli Mafia.”
Headed by a cold-blooded killer named Johnny Attias, the Israeli mafia butted heads with the Italian mafia, killed Russian gangsters and pulled off the biggest gold heist in the history of Manhattan’s Diamond District. Filled with paranoid mobsters, clever scams, and deep betrayals, Blood & Volume: Inside New York's Israeli Mafia, gives an exclusive and never-before revealed look into one of the most successful Israeli gangs ever to operate on American soil.
The book follows Ron Gonen, a likable rogue and hugely successful cocaine dealer who wanted nothing more than to end a three-decade span as a career criminal and focus on caring for his drug-addicted wife and infant daughter. But Attias had other plans for Gonen, and Ron quickly found himself pressured to join the Israeli mafia or become another name on the long list of Attias’s victims. Gonen’s supposed best friend, Ran Ephraim, complicated the issue, playing the two men against one another as he tried to wrest control of the Israeli mafia for himself.
Copeland has painstakingly reconstructed the gang's short but vicious run through hundreds of hours of interviews with Gonen and other key players, including the investigators who eventually brought the gang down. The result is a nonfiction narrative that reads like a page turning novel.
Dave Copeland is an award-winning writer and investigative reporter whose work has appeared in dozens of national magazines and newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal online, Reason and Boston Common. In 2004, Copeland was one of three American journalists to receive the Ruhr Grant from the  | Get news and information about upcoming appearances by Dave Copeland | |
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