Ivan G. Goldman's Books
Jun.20.2013
The U.S. holds 2.3 million of its people behind bars. That’s a population about the size of Houston’s, the country’s fourth-largest city. The number far exceeds what is necessary or reasonable. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of...
Apr.20.2012
A lively, inventive tale of Isaac that follows him beyond Genesis into the 21st century.
After being spared from Abraham's blade, he's been granted eternal youth and wanders the earth as a soldier of fortune. Turning up at a coffee shop in Los Angeles, he falls in love with Ruth Canby, a brilliant, breezy academic with a troubled past.
Isaac suspects he was forgotten, "a crumb...
Mar.22.2010
Ivan Goldman envisions a riotous near future in which the Blue States have seceded and formed their own union following a disastrous US invasion of Denmark, now deemed the central front in the war on terror. It's one of several conflicts being waged by a zealous Red Zone government in Washington that reportedly dispatches press gangs to fill military ranks while its citizens flee...
Apr.01.2009
When he was an Army boxer fighting to stay out of Vietnam, Lee Cheskis obeyed a brutal reflex, and only years later does he learn the tragic consequences. Staggered by regret, he throws himself off a career ladder at The New York Times to express his rage in bar fights against other troubled souls. Ultimately Cheskis seeks redemption guiding the career of L.A. gang member and...
Oct.01.1995
The rumor raced through the city of Las Vegas. An armored car had been robbed of three million dollars. Terry Lasky, a one-time, long-ago assistant U.S. Attorney now eking out a living as a poker shill at Bob's Beer and Guns, inhabits a world of muggers on poker breaks and rock-and-roll writers turned preachers and now everyone in Vegas believes he knows where the money is -- and...
Jan.18.1992
With former detective Mike Rothmiller
A look at the Organized Crime Intelligence Division that spied on celebrities and politicians only because they were celebrities and politicians and thanks to its murky mission was at times even wiling to let people get away with murder.
Isaac is . . . an overcoming-the-odds love story where the odds are seriously, seemingly insurmountably, stacked against the lovers. . . . We know something Ruth doesn’t know, and it’s painful being unable to comfort her. Any story with characters so real that we wish we could reach into the book and give them a hug demands to be read.
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—BookList Starred Review
About Ivan
New York Times-best-selling author Ivan Goldman's fourth novel Isaac: A Modern Fable was published by The Permanent Press in April 2012 and received a starred review in BookList. His novel The Barfighter was nominated as a 2009 Notable...
Causes Ivan Goldman Supports
American Heart Association
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Beit T'Shuvah Recovery Program