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8ballrollin · 05-02-2008, 05:07 AM

I started reading it this week. It's alt history/pulp fiction. A cop-crime drama set in a fictional Jewish metropolis on the Gulf of Alaska.

The backdrop: Israel is a failed state (back in '48). During WWII the US gives Jews land in Alaska as temporary sanctuary. Germany beats Russian in WWII, because they can focus on the war, not the holocaust (the Jews migrated out). Germany is later distroyed with nukes. The US was in a 'Cuban War' in the 60s.

The main character is a grizzled, alcoholic cop, trying to solve a string of unsolved murders...it's 60 years after WWII and the enclave is about to be returned to Alaskan State control.

It's good, so far...

il Padrino Ute · 05-02-2008, 05:18 AM

The subject line gave me the impression that you were going to post about a Monty Python skit.

8ballrollin · 05-02-2008, 05:40 AM

Looks like it will be a Coen Brothers movie too, someday.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Enterta...bon_book/6810/

Jeff Lebowski · 05-02-2008, 01:33 PM

Give us a review when you are done. I read his first book ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay") and enjoyed it very much.

05-02-2008, 05:07 AM	#1
8ballrollin Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: WA Posts: 1,287	The Yiddish Policemen's Union I started reading it this week. It's alt history/pulp fiction. A cop-crime drama set in a fictional Jewish metropolis on the Gulf of Alaska. The backdrop: Israel is a failed state (back in '48). During WWII the US gives Jews land in Alaska as temporary sanctuary. Germany beats Russian in WWII, because they can focus on the war, not the holocaust (the Jews migrated out). Germany is later distroyed with nukes. The US was in a 'Cuban War' in the 60s. The main character is a grizzled, alcoholic cop, trying to solve a string of unsolved murders...it's 60 years after WWII and the enclave is about to be returned to Alaskan State control. It's good, so far... __________________ "Five to one... One in five No one here gets out alive"

05-02-2008, 05:18 AM	#2
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	The subject line gave me the impression that you were going to post about a Monty Python skit. __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

05-02-2008, 05:40 AM	#3
8ballrollin Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: WA Posts: 1,287	Looks like it will be a Coen Brothers movie too, someday. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Enterta...bon_book/6810/ __________________ "Five to one... One in five No one here gets out alive"

05-02-2008, 01:33 PM	#4
Jeff Lebowski Charon Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the heart of darkness (Provo) Posts: 9,564	Give us a review when you are done. I read his first book ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay") and enjoyed it very much. __________________ "... the arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.