An accidental murder
Subtitle: an Avram Cohen mystery
By: Robert Rosenberg.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Private investigators -- Fiction.; Organized crime -- Fiction.; Russians -- Israel -- Fiction.; Mafia -- Fiction.; Israel -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Someone wants to kill Cohen - or so it seems - possibly because of something he wrote in his memoir about his year as an avenger assassinating Nazis after his long-ago liberation from the Dachau concentration camp. But then his longtime protege Nissim Levy is found murdered on the road to Eilat. Is this a revenge killing somehow aimed at Cohen, or as Nissim's former assistant believes, could the Russian mafioso be involved?

From private nightclubs where mafia kingpins entertain with vodka-drenched feasts to massage parlors where the women work with cold-blooded professionalism, Cohen's search for Levy's killer becomes a twisted journey into a new side of Israel hardly known to the outsider. On the way, Cohen must look back at his own guilt before he can unveil a killer with a misguided but nonetheless profound motive for murder.