• Fixer

Power broker Harry Leonnoff takes on Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in this thrilling novel of New York City politics.

From the slums of the Lower East Side to New Orleans, the Vatican, and the bloody battle of Belleau Wood, Fixer is the spellbinding tale of a fearless politician with a limp and a .38 who is faced with an impossible choice between his career and his integrity.

Harry Leonnoff, uneducated son of Russian Jewish immigrants, overcomes the poverty of the Lower East Side, a crippling bout with polio, and rampant anti-Semitism to become the admired Robin Hood of Depression-Era New York. He helps four mayors get elected, saves nine innocent black men from the electric chair, and comes to the aid of immigrants and the poor. But the enmity of Fiorello La Guardia may be too much even for Harry Leonnoff to fix. Ed Brodow introduces us to one of the most compelling antiheroes in contemporary American fiction.


"A passionate, tough and colorful story...fascinating!"
-- Iris Rainer Dart, author of Beaches

"Breathtaking! A powerful story and a real page-turner. Harry Leonnoff is an unforgettable character."
-- Susan RoAne, author of How to Work a Room

"An extraordinary book, and one you won't be able to put down."
-- C.L. Rossman at ArmchairInterviews.com

"Extraordinarily interesting characters that are well drawn. The novel is never less than fascinating reading. Ed Brodow is a born storyteller."
-- Grady Harp, Amazon Top 10 reviewer

"A modern classic. Not since Edna Ferber's great novels and Betty Smith's 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' have I read a novel that is so lifelike, powerful and riveting. A fascinating read."
-- Susanna Hutcheson, award-winning journalist

"A lively, compelling novel with a good plot. Deft construction of scenes replete with provocative and fascinating dialogue. Wonderful shifting of perspectives and the manipulation of language and logic at every turn. A very good novel."
-- Writer's Digest



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