Lee Sacks is a native Philadelphian.
The past fifty-two years of his adult life
have been in business in Philadelphia and
South Florida. When asked if he is retired,
he says, "I don't like the word retired. I see
myself as being in a renewal process."
Pinnie Lavan: Handsome, energetic, ambitious, intelligent, and forgiving. He lives his life by two quotes from Cicero: “The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.” and “Natural ability without education has more attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” Danny Lachs: Pinnie’s first friend in America—a visionary whose fantastic dreams are always ten years too soon. Arlene Feingold Lavan: She leaps from being the studious little girl with all the library books to the Lavan family sage. Pius Vanzetti: Philadelphia’s mob boss who takes a mysterious liking to Pinnie and shares his tenebrous secret. Angelo Moriani: Pius’s godson—a man of very few words--tortured by a secret he’s not supposed to know. Meyer, aka Little Man: Pius’s friend, financial manipulator for the underworld. Bennie Kassman: Mouthpiece for the mob with a weird phobia for germs. Bennie doesn’t shake hands with anyone. This king of cross examination pounds jurors with three equivocal words-- allegedly, reputedly, and purportedly. Jack Lavan: Pinnie and Arlene’s beloved nephew—fragile, pensive, and ruthless—filled with unscrupulous drive, hatred, and ambition—tortured by memories of his adolescence in a German Concentration Camp. Will he ever be able to forgive the horrors he can not forget? General Eli Levinson: The fixer—Career soldier and CIA pioneer.
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