Praise received for Jack Engelhard’s other books:

“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

“A towering literary achievement.”

- Letha Hadady, author, for The Bathsheba Deadline

“Savor it…it may be the best, sharpest, most vivid portrait of life around the racetrack ever written.”

- Ray Kerrison, New York Post columnist writing for the National Star, for The Horsemen

“The refugee stories Engelhard preserves are boyhood memories of an almost Tom Sawyer character… adventurous, humorous, sometimes wonderfully strange.”

- Chris Leppek, Jewish News (Denver), for Escape from Mount Moriah

“It is such a fantastic read that I wonder, can any reviewer ever do it justice.”

- Gisela Hausmann, author and blogger, for Slot Attendant: A Novel About a Novelist

“What a great story. If you missed the 60s – if you missed the excitement, the passion, the radicalism, the thrills, the hopes and dreams – this book brings it all alive. I could not put it down.”

- Kmgroup review for The Days of the Bitter End