Book Review: ‘Crooks: A Novel’ By Lou Berney

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The Mercurios family is something else. Buddy left for Vegas when he was young and became a low-level mob guy and met Lillian. They get married and things don’t work out in Vegas and they have to leave fast. They move to her hometown and house in Oklahoma City, have kids and Buddy opens a disco, the first one in the area and it becomes a hit for a while. Then we follow son Jeremy starting in 1984 and his life in Los Angels in love with a porn star and then getting wealthy women to give him money until he is run out of town. Then daughter Tallulah in Moscow in 1994 doing illegal things. Then Ray is in Vegas as a fix-it man for a gangster and how he takes stock in his life. Then daughter Alice, who is a lawyer in New York trying to do the right things. And finally Piggy, the most sane kid in the family, always wanting to reunite his family. This is an excellent character-driven novel following this family over decades. It’s an intense read that you do not want to put down.