The Yiddish Policemen's Union
By: Michael Chabon
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Nebula Award
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781407413846
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Drug addicts; Murder; Investigation; Jews; Crimes against; Fiction
Description: What if - as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after \Vorld War II?

In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy. Suspicion falls upon Rebbe Gold, leader of a secretive sect. But behind Rebbe looms an even larger shadow. Nieyer is determined to unsnarl the meaning behind the murder. Even if that means surrendering his badge and his dignity to the chief of Sitka's homicide unit - also known as his fearsome ex-wife...
Notes: Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2007.