title: Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster
author:  Tere Tereba 
description: <DIV>"With great style and boatloads of new information, Tere Tereba has crafted a page-turner about the greatest gangster LA has ever seen. . . . Few lived on the edge as long as Cohen, and fewer still earned a biography this entertaining." &#8212;Gus Russo, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, <I>The Outfit </I>and <I>Supermob</I></div><br /><br /><DIV>"The author does a superb job of tracing the ins and outs of Hollywood's gang world in the 1940s and '50s." &#8212;<I>Wall Street Journal</I> (May 16, 2012)</div><br /><br /><DIV>"This is a slashing good book &#8212; a razor-sharp bio of malevolent macher Mickey the C: the confounding Kingpin of L.A. crime. Buy this book now &#8212; it'll hang you out to dry!!" &#8212;James Ellroy, author, <I>The Black Dahlia</I> and <I>L.A. Confidential</I></div><br /><br /><DIV>"[An] absorbing and gritty account of Cohen's rise from a tough as nails pugilist from East L.A. to a seemingly untouchable gangster." &#8212;www.HollywoodOutbreak.com</div><br /><br /><DIV>"[A] gripping yarn about the life and times of the 20th-century Los Angeles underworld." &#8212;www.InterviewMagazine.com</DIV><br /><br /><DIV>"Tere Tereba gives up the charismatic L.A. mobster Mickey Cohen." &#8212;<I>Vanity Fair</I> (May 2012)</div><br /><br /><DIV>"Tereba brings the bantamweight crook back to vivid life in this biography, along with the night clubs and race tracks he frequented and the no-holds-barred L.A. in which he flourished. This is a remarkable biography." &#8212;<I>Booklist </I>(April 2012)</div><br /><br /><DIV>"For readers who revel in old movies, stories about gangsters in double-breasted suits, and midcentury Los Angeles. Recommended." &#8212;<I>Library Journal </I>(May 2012)</div>
zlib_text: > BRAD SMITH, A “FUNNY, POIGNANT, EVOCATIVE”  
  > (DENNIS LEHANE) CRIME NOVELIST, DEBUTS A NEW SERIES SET IN  
  > UPSTATE NEW YORK FEATURING JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES VIRGIL CAIN, WHO MUST  
  > CLEAR HIS NAME OF TWO MURDERS WHILE ON THE RUN FROM THE LAW. SCRIBNER
  
  > Mickey Dupree is one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate
  > New York. The upside of being Mickey: he has never lost a capital murder
  > case. The downside: Mickey has a lot of enemies, and one of them has just
  > driven the shaft of a golf club through his heart, leaving him dead in a
  > sand trap at his exclusive country club.
  
  > The cops, led by a gung ho but dim-witted detective named Joe Brady, focus
  > their attentions on Virgil Cain. Just two weeks earlier, Virgil told a
  > crowded bar that “somebody ought to blow Mickey’s head off,” after the
  > slippery lawyer earned an acquittal for Alan Comstock, the man accused of
  > murdering Virgil’s wife. Comstock, a legendary record producer, gun nut, and
  > certifiable lunatic