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His TV movie
Legacy of Lies,
a drama about three generations of Jewish gangsters and cops in Chicago, which starred Eli Wallach, won the Writers Foundation of America Gold Medal for Excellence in Writing. It also received an ACE Award for Martin Landau for Best Actor.

His feature
The Confession,
starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Kingsley, and Amy Irving, was praised in
New York
by John Leonard and in
The Hollywood Reporter
, among other places, and was described in
Metroland
as “an almost miraculous act of storytelling.”

He has published nine books and more than 150 articles in magazines, including
The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's,
and
Rolling Stone
. His novel
An Impossible Life
has been praised by, among others, Nobel Prize–winning author Czeslaw Milosz, Erica Jong, Bruce Jay Friedman, and Leslie Epstein, who called it the best writing about Jewish gangsters since Isaac Babel.
Contemporary Authors
describes Black as “a versatile, multimedia writer who has distinguished himself in both fiction and nonfiction.”

He has taught writing at Mt. Holyoke, NYU, Columbia, Yale, where he is a Fellow at Pierson College, and Harvard, where he is a scholar-in-residence at Kirkland House. He is a former board member of the Mystery Writers of America and a member of the Century Association, the Williams Club, the Columbia University Club, PEN, the Writers Guild, the Explorers Club, the Players, and the National Arts Club. You can sign up for email updates
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NOVELS

The Extinction Event

An Impossible Life

Peep Show

Minds

Like Father

NONFICTION

Medicine Man

Murder at the Met

The King of Fifth Avenue

Ekstasy

PLAYS

An Impossible Life

POETRY

Mirrors

FILMS

The Confession

Legacy of Lies

TV

Cop Shop

CSI: Miami

The Bedford Diaries

The Education of Max Bickford

Sidney Lumet's
100 Centre Street

The Cosby Mysteries

EZ Streets

Law & Order

The Nasty Boys

H.E.L.P.

Gideon Oliver

Miami Vice

Hill Street Blues

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Epigraph

Prologue

Part One: Jack

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Part Two: Caroline

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Part Three: Keating

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Chapter Forty-Three

Chapter Forty-Four

Chapter Forty-Five

Chapter Forty-Six

About the Author

Also by David Black

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

Geography has been rearranged in some cases: The Mycenae in this book is not the city in Onondaga County, but one in Columbia County, on the Hudson River.

THE EXTINCTION EVENT

Copyright © 2010 by David Black

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ISBN 978-0-7653-2261-6

First Edition: May 2010

eISBN: 9780765386342

First eBook Edition: May 2015

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