Title: The iron will of Shoeshine Cats
Description: It's New York, 1963, and college student Russell Newhouse has just made the acquaintance of notorious Jewish gangster Shoeshine Cats. Cats wants a tiny favour. And - for his own reasons - he also wants to educate Russell in the world of crime, cops and the gritty reality of life on the edge. Russell knows a lot about books, a bit about girls, and nothing at all about the mob. That's about to change.
Subjects: Jews, Fiction, History, Jews, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 1951-