Praise received for Jack Engelhard’s other books:
“Precise, almost clinical language…Is this book fun to read? You betcha.”
- The New York Times, for Indecent Proposal
“Well-wrought characters, exhilarating pace…funny and gruff…a fast and well-crafted book.”
- Philadelphia Inquirer, for Indecent Proposal
“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
“Engelhard tells the story of The Girls of Cincinnati with precision through his masterful narration. Every word has a place and every page has a quote you will want to remember.”
- 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
“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