The Zwi Migdal's Reign of Terror
SADIE'S SIN - A Novel by Neil Perry Gordon
Excerpt from Sadie’s Sin:
The moment Sadie slipped into the backseat of the car she asked, “Can someone please tell me what’s going on?”
“Your father already told you, Sadie,” her mother said, turning her head to look at her, “you’re getting married.”
“What are you saying?” Sadie said, putting her hand to her forehead. “Can we just stop the damn car so we can talk about this?”
“There’s nothing more to discuss,” her father said, keeping his eyes on the road. “I already told you we were looking. The marriage broker called this morning and said he had an offer, but we need to move quickly, because the man’s leaving tonight, and wants to take his bride with him.”
“Take his bride where?” Sadie shouted, now feeling sweat run off her forehead.
“To Argentina. He’s a wealthy businessman from Buenos Aires. You’re leaving with him right after the wedding,” her father said. “We’ve made a deal; he’s paying a great sum of money for the honor.”
“He’s very handsome, Sadie,” her mother added. “I met him this morning. You’ll have beautiful children.”
“I’m going to throw up, can you pull over?”
Her father turned, wagged a finger and growled, “You better not mess this up, Sadie. If this turns out bad, I’ll make sure you never get married.”
“Just pull over,” she screamed, “before I puke in the car.”
Her father swerved the car to the side of the road. Sadie opened the door and vomited on the sidewalk near two people who were standing on the curb, smoking and talking.
Her mother handed Sadie a hanky. “Here, wipe your mouth with this.”
She snatched the hanky, closed the car door, and dropped her head backwards onto the headrest, closed her eyes, and said, “This can’t be happening.”
Amazon 5 star review:
“What a book! It has everything I look for in a novel. It educates while it entertains. I was never aware of this hideous side of Jewish history. It has characters that are both three dimensional and sympathetic. They’re larger than life while also remaining realistic. Same with the novel’s villains. How many men would go through what Alex goes through to get Sadie back? None that I’ve ever met. Rarely have I ever read of a fictional character with this much fortitude and passion for the woman he loves. The couple genuinely goes through Hell trying to reunite and you feel for them every step of the way. Of course what Sadie endures is far more grueling and traumatic than what Alex does. More so than any character in any book I’ve read about it in a long time. I feel the need to keep elaborating on what makes this book so good, but I don’t want to give anything away. Please, check this book out. It’s a page turner and won’t disappoint!
Book summary:
Sadie Wollman, a young Jewess in 1924 Warsaw, Poland, has fallen in love with the handsome university professor—Alexander Kaminski. But when her traditional parents learn about this possible unholy matrimony to a gentile, they hastily arrange a brokered marriage to a wealthy Argentine Jewish business man—Ezra Porkevitch.
Believing they sent their daughter off to a glamorous life of wealth and luxury, this young woman instead faces a new reality of becoming a Polaca, a sex slave to the Zwi Migdal, a Jewish organized-crime group trafficking young women into forced prostitution throughout brothels in Buenos Aires.
When her lover Alex, a war hero of Poland, learns of the deception, he, along with his life-long friend Jan Mazur, seek to rescue Sadie from the grips of this wicked group of men protected by the Argentine political and law enforcement establishment.
Sadie’s Sin is an epic-romantic tale of an innocent woman's torment as she is sold to the city's most prestigious brothel—The Tango, and the hero's journey across three continents, seeking her rescue.
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