{"product_id":"the-gonif-9781684421305","title":"The Gonif","description":"\u003cb\u003eLA's oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe has returned to stop a heist before it happens in the exciting fifth installment of the \u003ci\u003eAmos Parisman Mystery \u003c\/i\u003eseries! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo escape the predations of the Nazis, a rare two-hundred-year-old Torah is quietly smuggled out of a doomed North African Jewish community in the dead of night and put aboard a ship. Eventually, it makes its way to safety across the Atlantic. Generations after the war has ended, it resides in obscurity in a small, rundown Sephardic temple in Hollywood. The peace is shattered, however, when suddenly someone tries to break in and abscond with it.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmos Parisman, a local, agnostic, aging gumshoe, is recruited to thwart the would-be burglar. This sets him off on a madcap plunge into the world of international art and antiquities, and the ruthless kind of people who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to own them.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gonif\u003c\/i\u003e parses the difference between true wisdom and the coarse material world.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Prospect Park Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684421305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Andy Weinberger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44736576880821,"sku":"9781684421305","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7af44af4-2a5c-40dd-9eed-d693ae27c616.jpg?v=1729609682","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-gonif-9781684421305","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}