<DIV>?Karlen offers a colorful and impressively researched account of the Minneapolis underworld and his fascinating relative that feels right out of Damon Runyon’s <I>Guys and Dolls.</I>” <I>Star Tribune </I><BR> ?Deliciously snappy.” <I>American Jewish World</I><BR><br> ?Karlen brings back the days when Peggy Lee walked into Augie’s straight off the bus from North Dakota, when mid-century celebrities like Frank Sinatra visited Hennepin Avenue, and when the most powerful crime lords in the land checked their guns at the door when they visited Augie’s.”<I> MinnPost</I><BR><br> ?<I>Augie’s Secrets</I> is filled with stunning, stylish prose that captures the flavor of the Jewish underworld of downtown Minneapolis down to its last rubout and pastrami sandwich.” Paul Maccabee, author of <I>John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks’ Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920?1936</I><BR><br> <B>Neal Karlen,</B> who has written for the <I>New York Times, Newsweek,</I> and <I>Rolling Stone,</I> is the author or coauthor of six books. <BR></DIV>