Introducing Compulsive, Jack Engelhard’s New Novel
The Israel theme runs throughout…the hero, film-maker Gil Gilels, in order to pay off his gambling debts, is in a life or death dilemma to produce an anti-Israel/anti-Semitic film for a billionaire anti-Semite. There is much more going on and I certainly can’t give out the ending. Read it…..rsk
In his usual hard-edged prose, for which he is internationally famous, bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard (Indecent Proposal) draws us into the mind of a compulsive gambler in a work stunningly brilliant and original, and seductively readable. Compulsive is a journey through today, with issues as current as the morning paper, brought to the fore by characters as timeless as the Bible. All this processed through a mind addicted to gambling as surely as others are addicted to heroin. A brisk read by one of America’s most accomplished authors… not to be missed. Jack Engelhard, the last of the Hemingways, is a writer without peer and the conscience of us all.
Praise Received for Compulsive
“Compulsive is enormously enjoyable, and so easy to get into.”
– Kenneth Slawenski, (Random House) bestselling author of
J.D. Salinger: A Life – www.deadcaulfields.com
“Compulsive is written as such a person thinks. Through it all we see the masterful orchestration of action that is pure Engelhard.”
– John W. Cassell, author of Crossroads: 1969
“Engelhard’s writing has a raucous edginess that is fresh, original and superb in drawing us into the mind of a compulsive gambler. In Compulsive, Engelhard brings it home, again.”
– Lois Sack, author of Her Brightness in the Darkness
“Jack Engelhard is a master at creating moral dilemmas that make the reader think long after you finish reading the story.”
– Bonnie Kaye, M.Ed., Counselor and author of A Woman’s Guide to Dysfuntional Men
About the Author
Contemporaries have hailed novelist Jack Engelhard as “the last Hemingway” and of being “a writer without peer and the conscience of us all.” The New York Times commended the economy of his prose… “precise, almost clinical language.” His bestselling novel Indecent Proposal made him internationally famous as the foremost chronicler of moral dilemmas and of topics dealing with temptation. Works that followed won him an even greater following, such as Escape From Mount Moriah, his book of memoirs that won awards for writing and for film. Engelhard writes a weekly column for theWashington Times. His website: www.jackengelhard.com
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