The Silverberg Business

<p><b>In 1888 in Victoria Texas for a simple job a Chicago private eye gets caught up in the poker game to end all poker games.</b></p><p>Shannon a Chicago private detective returns home to Galveston Texas for a wedding. Galveston's new rabbi asks Shannon to find Nathan Silverberg gone missing along with a group of swindlers who claim to be soliciting money for a future colony of Romanian Jewish refugees. <br></p><p>What seems to be a simple job soon pushes Shannon into stranger territory. His investigations lead him to a malevolent white-haired gambler monstrous sand dune totems and a group of skull-headed poker players trapped in an endless loop of cards and alcohol who may be his only means to survive the business. <br></p><p>With <i>The Silverberg Business</i> Robert Freeman Wexler has delivered a gloriously strange hard-boiled tale that crosses genres and defies expectations.</p>