Michael Fertik Art

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Beneath the peaceful exterior of the leafy town of Tall Tree, the brutal baby gangster underworld is simmering to a hard boil.  Squeezy the Cheeks, undisputed leader of the long ruling North Wood crew, is facing the toughest challenge of his career: his archnemesis Harry the Rash, who rules the Poopypants Gang with an iron rattle, is making a play for Squeezy’s territory.  Mama’s Boy, the freshest recruit into Squeezy’s mob of infant thugs, is unwittingly thrust into the middle of the massive heist Squeezy must pull off to keep himself and his crew in their seat of power. Everything is at stake for the North Wood Gang.  But can Mama’s Boy keep it together to make the score, or will the mysterious redhead he encounters at Story Time distract him at his most important hour? Join Mama’s Boy as he journeys into the dark underbelly of the baby hoodlum wars and is forced to change his worldview forever.

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published 2021

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Oscar Orleans is a Congolese refugee in Israel. He’s also the only Hebrew-speaking liaison to the African refugee community living in Tel Aviv’s worst slum. When his old friend Inspector Kobi Sambinsky of the Asylum Unit calls him early on Shabbat morning, he knows something is wrong. A young South Sudanese immigrant, barely eighteen years old, has been found murdered in the city’s most iconic waterfront building. He is a recent arrival, and no one can quite place his origins. The only clue is his unusual name, Kinga, which he shared with both another refugee from eight years earlier and a controversial political figure in South Sudan’s most dangerous warring faction. Together, Inspector Sambinsky and Oscar Orleans must venture into the heart of Tel Aviv's secretive Sudanese underground, Israel’s hyper-violent Russian mob, and a mystery that has been laying dormant for years near the shores of the Dead Sea.

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