The Israeli writer Gadi Taub is doing his best to bring the spirit of James Ellroy to the Middle East. Taub’s edgy crime novel, Allenby Street, is set in a seedy Tel Aviv nightclub, and it shocked and disturbed Israeli readers when it came out last year. Produced by Michael May.
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