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Traces the author's discovery that his believed-dead great-uncle was in prison for his work as a mafia enforcer, describing the author's series of visits to "Uncle Heshy's" cell during which he encountered his relative's brutal and paradoxical character and came to understand deeper dynamics within his family's Jewish heritage. 50,000 first printing.

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One of the 20 best books coming out this fall. -- GQ

One of the 20 best books coming out this fall.--GQ

A deeply weird, terrific story ... scrupulously reported and wonderfully told, with wiseguys as vivid as any in Elmore Leonard.--William Finnegan

Terrifying, moral, and funny... affirms our faith in the power of the best nonfiction to move and delight us.--Walter Kirn

Konigsberg's inspired reporting cracks a window on the bedlam of post-war organized crime ... vivid, haunting, funny, magnificently original.--Katherine Boo

Written so well, with such care and emotional precision.--Geoffrey Wolff

"A portrait of evil that is never banal, Blood Relation plays out like Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" in reverse.--Edward Conlon

"Absorbing and marvelously told [in] graceful, perfectly pitched prose . . . a mesmerizing expedition."--New York Times Book Review

A picture of the classic gangster, an excellent study not only of crime but of family and Jewish identity.--Library Journal

A portrait of evil that is never banal, Blood Relation plays out like Hitchcock s Shadow of a Doubt in reverse.--Edward Conlon"
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A New Yorker writer investigates the life and career of his hit-man great-uncle and the impact on his family. When he was sent off to boarding school Konigsberg learned from an ex-cop security guard that there a shameful, long-hidden family secret , his great-uncle Harold, in prison in upstate New York, was a legendary Mafia enforcer, suspected by the FBI of upwards of twenty murders. His grandfather, a Jewish Horatio Alger story who had become a respected merchant through honesty and hard work, never spoke of his baby brother. When other relatives could be coaxed into talking about him, he wasn't "Kayo" Konigsberg, the "smartest hit man" and "toughest Jew" described by cops and associates; he was Uncle Heshy, the smalltime con, long since written off as dead. Intrigued, Konigsberg ignored his family's protests and arranged a meeting, which inspired this book. In "Blood Relation," Konigsberg portrays Harold as a fascinating, paradoxical character: both brutal and winning, a cold-blooded killer and a larger-than-life charmer who taught himself to read as an adult and served as his own lawyer in two major trials, to riotous effect.

Konigsberg traces his great-uncle's checkered and outlandish life and investigates his impact on his family and others who crossed his path, weaving together strands of family, Jewish identity, justice, and postwar American history.

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  • PublisherHarperCollins
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 0060099046
  • ISBN 13 9780060099046
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  • Number of pages280
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