Deadly Deception

by Jack Engelhard

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914839438
• ISBN13: 9780914839439
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Gollehon Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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A Book Transcendant

A BOOK TRANSCENDANT DEADLY DECEPTION by Jack Engelhard Remove the dustcover from this hardbound book (sorry...I can't abide snakes) and it is a medium blue....the same color as my Atlantic Ocean on those early autumn, sunny, crisp days when I'd stare at it from the windows of Atlantic City High School where I was busily flunking Spanish II [actually it was all the fault of Khrushchev and Castro, but that's another story]. The comparison is apt... because much of the story takes place in Atlantic City...in fact the protagonist, Julian Rothschild [not one of those Rothschilds], lives on the street in Margate City where I grew up...he lives about four blocks away. He attended the elementary school my mom taught at for sixteen years and the high school where I flunked Spanish II...and geometry and probably a few other subjects too [the others NOT the fault of Khrushchev and Castro, but that's another story still]. This, however, is not the basis for my breathless, enthusiastic, unequivocal five star recommendation of this book. In fact it was these references that almost made me put it down...you see I left home once upon a time and now am unable to get back... and I miss it terribly. It made me homesick. No...I recommend this book because it is a moral, social, cultural, spiritual MASTERPIECE. Seldom have I seen such a multi-faceted masterwork, so truly and utterly compelling [you won't even think of putting it down...unless of course it makes you homesick]. Enticing action, fascinating characters... both sublime and every day....in short, those we all have met in the course of a full, unsheltered life, from the so-called "beautiful people" of Hollywood and the "comp'd" millionaire suites at the top of the casinos... to the hustlers on "Fun Corner" [what the locals called Kentucky and Arctic Avenues in my day...yes, the book goes there too]....to the homeless dying on the beach in the very shadow of millions of dollars. Love and lust, Good and Evil...action and adventure...this one has it all. ...And dialogue...yes DIALOGUE...that leaves writers of my ilk wondering what rock we were hiding under when such talent was handed out. Of course we know where...in Jack Engelhard's case...the talent comes from...El Camino Duro [as my Spanish II teacher would say]...the Hard Road. Starting life fleeing in terror from the Gestapo...living an impoverished refugee in Montreal, Canada...knocking about in Greenwich Village [during the Golden Age of Dylan, Cosby, Lenny Bruce and Peter, Paul and Mary], also Cincinnati, Haifa, New York, Jerusalem and Philadelphia....a journalist...combat soldier...hustler...martial arts expert and lover of thoroughbred racing. He has seen it all. Like his character Slim Sam Belmont in this book he is one of a kind and his passing, G-d forbid, will leave a gaping hole never to be filled again ...society is different now. But there are his writings, such as Deadly Deception, and with these writings we can SOAR... become