Ebook {Epub PDF} Button Man by Andrew Gross

Andrew Gross follows Mark Twain's advice to write what you know. And he hits a home run. Button Man is not the usual immigrant rags-to-riches tale. The remarkable life of Morris Rabishevsky (soon to be Raab) is actually, "with only a few embellishments," the story of the author's own grandfather/5().  · Set between , and a rags-to-riches tale like Dickens’s Great Expectations merged with The Godfather, Button Man traces the rise of a Jewish immigrant family in the dawn of the women’s garment business collapse under the hammer of organized crime. It draws in the real life crime figures of Lepke, Dutch Schultz, and Albert Anastasia of the feared Murder, Incorporated, as well as . After a string of New York Times bestselling suburban thrillers, Andrew Gross has reinvented himself as a writer of historical thrillers. In his latest novel, Button Man, he delivers a stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the www.doorway.ru: Apple.

Button Man: Andrew Gross: LR: stars. Intriguing historical backdrop and time period - the garment industry in s New York - make this an interesting read. Nov: The One Man: Andrew Gross: DNF: Folks on Goodreads said this was Gross's best. Perhaps I wasn't in the right mood. Nov: The Ragged Edge of Night: Olivia Hawker: ER. Button Man by Andrew Gross is a historical thriller and a stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the s—take a visual tour with GIFnotes!. Morris, Sol, and Harry Rabishevsky grew up poor and rough in a tiny flat on the Lower East Side. Button Man | Click Here For the Autographed Copy Following up The One Man and The Saboteur, Gross's next historical thriller brings to life the drama of the birth of organized crime in s New York City from the tale of one www.doorway.ru a string of New York Times bestselling suburban thrillers, Andrew Gross has reinvented himself as a writer of historical thrillers.

Button Man by by Andrew Gross. Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller; Mass Market Paperback: pages; Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; ISBN ; ISBN Gross: “ Button Man is fiction, but it is drawn from a well of personal history. It’s about a young immigrant who rises from the streets of the Lower East Side, drops out of school at twelve to work in a garment factory, ends up running that factory by the time he was twenty, battles the Jewish mob who have taken over the garment unions and shows off the knife scar in his abdomen to prove it, and ends up founding an iconic women’s clothing company that bears his daughter’s name. After a string of New York Times bestselling suburban thrillers, Andrew Gross has reinvented himself as a writer of historical thrillers. In his latest novel, Button Man, he delivers a stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the s.