S18 Ep140: Gangsters Don't Die w/Tod Goldberg
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🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 160 minutes
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Summary
HE'S BACK!! And, he brings with him, the conclusion to the critically acclaimed Gangsterland series, "Gangsters Don't Die"! New York Times Best Selling Author, Tod Goldberg returns to True Crime Tuesday to give us a sneak peak of the new book, and fill us in on the final chapter of Rabbi David Cohen/Sal Cupertine to tease us on hpow this Rabbi/Mob hit man is going to try to navigate his way out of the life, but try to find his wife and son, who are in protective custody, all while confronting some very evil people from his past!
Meanwhile, Native American kingpin Peaches Pocotillo has wrested control of Chicago’s mob family while expanding his criminal empire in the west, and now seeks to settle an old score with Sal. These two antiheroes have a history that stretches back decades, and the blood feud between Peaches and Sal will lead them to a violent showdown deep in the heart of the low desert.
We talk to Tod about character motivations, his mindset as he is finishing this nine year journey with these characters, his true touching story behind one of the characters in the book, and how you blow up Downtown Las Vegas (and scatter body parts for a mile radius), without harming a hair on anyone's head!
PLUS: AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH BEER CITY BRUISER!
Check out more about Tod here: http://todgoldberg.com/
Get the book, "Gangsters Don't Die" or the free Audible trial here: https://bit.ly/3GaB6II
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome in the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host |
| 0:27.0 | Tim Dennis. As I've told you folks in the past, I'm a little obsessed right now |
| 0:31.7 | with crime fiction and one of the guys I'm obsessed with is our guest today |
| 0:37.1 | Todd Goldberg who let's just face it guys He's got to be one of the kings of crime fiction writing. He is man want to talk about a brilliant mind |
| 0:46.3 | This man has a brilliant mind and has a brilliant book out there right now called gangsters don't die |
| 0:52.4 | Let me tell you a little bit about Todd Goldberg. If you don't know about him, first of all, I don't know what rock you're living under, but Todd Goldberg is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books of Fiction, including the acclaimed Gangster Land Quartet. |
| 1:05.6 | It includes Gangster Land, Gangster Nation, The Low Desert, Gangster Stories, and Gangsters |
| 1:10.5 | Don't Die, which is a book we're talking about today, which were named finalists for the |
| 1:15.2 | Hammett Prize, the International Thriller of the Year Award, the Strand Critics Award, |
| 1:20.4 | and the Reading the West Award, and have been named Southwest Book of the Year. |
| 1:25.7 | He's also the author of the standalone novels The House of Secrets, which he co-authored with |
| 1:30.1 | Brad Meltzer. |
| 1:31.1 | Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and |
| 1:36.1 | Fake Liar Cheat, the acclaimed story collections, other resort cities, and Simplify, which won the other Voices Book Prize, |
| 1:45.0 | was a finalist for the Southern California Book Sellers Association Award for Fiction. |
| 1:50.0 | And five books in the popular Burn Notice series which I'm sure you're aware of of |
| 1:55.8 | of course with the television show as well that was all about Burn Notice and |
| 1:59.8 | and about the books. Three times a finalist for the Scribe Award. |
| 2:03.8 | His books have been published in a dozen languages |
| 2:07.2 | and around the world. |
| 2:08.3 | In addition to his three volumes of collected stories, Todd's short fiction |
| 2:11.8 | has appeared in a number of magazines, journals, and anthologies, |
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