Daniel Friedman

The King of Chicago is the story of a father-son relationship as real and hugely loving as that in Philip Roth's Patrimony. At its heart is a young son who tries furiously to heal his father from a violent childhood inside a Chicago orphanage. The orphanage, the Marks Nathan Home, still stands today on the West Side of Chicago, marked by a tarnished, barely legible plaque. Once home to 14,000 Jewish orphans, it is now just another barely remembered...

"1807, Cambridge, England.A young woman is murdered in a boarding house, and nobody knows what to do about it. The volunteer watchman who patrols the streets of this placid college town has no idea how to investigate a serious crime and the private bounty hunters the girl's family has hired to catch the killer employ methods that are questionable, at best. What Cambridge needs is a hero, and, in a situation such as this, it's very easy for a gentleman...

"Buck Schatz in an eighty-seven-year-old retired Memphis cop with a know-it-all plugged-in grandson for a sidekick. When Buck learns that an old adversary may have escaped from Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, he decodes to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of that stolen treasure, and Buck's investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a Mississippi loan shark, a seven-foot-tall Hasidic...

A feel-good, coming of (middle) age comedy about a mismatched pair who helps each other overcome life's road blocks.