LAs oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe has returned to stop a heist before it happens in the exciting fifth installment of the Amos Parisman Mystery series To escape the predations of the Nazis a rare twohundredyearold Torah is quietly smuggled out of a doomed North African Jewish community in the dead of night and put aboard a ship. Eventually it makes its way to safety across the Atlantic. Generations after the war has ended it resides in obscurity in a small rundown Sephardic temple in Hollywood. The peace is shattered however when suddenly someone tries to break in and abscond with it.Amos Parisman a local agnostic aging gumshoe is recruited to thwart the wouldbe burglar. This sets him off on a madcap plunge into the world of international art and antiquities and the ruthless kind of people who will stop at nothingnot even murderamp8212to own them.The Gonif parses the difference between true wisdom and the coarse material world.