What happens when a husband has lived two lives and harbors a deep secret Robert Kalich blurs the lines between memoir and fiction to tell a timeless story of love and redemption with a dash of noir. David Lazar is a born and bred New Yorker reflecting on the arc of his life as he composes his memoir. Filled with colorful New York characterschildhood friends business mentors wealthy associates organized crime figures celebrities and sports starsand told by a complex and compelling narrator the city from the 1950s up to the present comes alive. The Big Apple is Lazars cradle and his cauldron and a life like Lazars is unique to New York City. A professional sports gambler Lazar is haunted by the immoral nature of the very work that made him rich. His innermost being is shaken as he reimagines the dehumanizing nature of his work and former life. Did he sell his soul to make it Is there redemption for wealth based on corruption and violence ... show more