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Evening's empire : the story of my father's murder
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Evening's empire : the story of my father's murder (2009) (edit title/settings)

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When he was just six years old, Zachary Lazar's father, Edward, was shot dead by hit men in a Phoenix, Arizona parking garage. The year was 1975, a time when, according to the Arizona Republic , "land-fraud artists roamed the state in sharp suits, gouging money from buyers and investors." How... read more

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Ed Lazar, a CPA, was murdered in 1975 after becoming entangled in shady Arizona real estate deals. His son, Zachary Lazar was only 6 at the time. Now over 40 years later, Zach writes a book that, in a somewhat frustrating manner, blends fact with fiction in an attempt to reconstruct the events... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Ed Lazar, a CPA, was murdered in 1975 after becoming entangled in shady Arizona real estate deals. His son, Zachary Lazar was only 6 at the time. Now over 40 years later, Zach writes a book that, in a somewhat frustrating manner, blends fact with fiction in an attempt to reconstruct the events leading up to his father’s murder.

The author describes the book as "a kind of conjuration” (p. 52). I found it baffling that the author went into so much detail about things that could not be known, such as candy wrappers littering the card tables (p 204), people fiddling with toothpicks or ball point pens (p. 204), a person unclasping their hands and tapping the table (p 179), scrambled eggs sticking to skillets in a sink (p 194), leaving a napkin-wrapped drink on someone's half-cleared table (p 116), a tall blue glass beaded with condensation (p 42), yet this huge "Ponzi scheme" is left virtually undescribed because it is complex, an "abstraction upon abstraction, world without end" (p 29).

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In the fall of 1996, a few days after my wedding, an article about my father appeared in the Arizona Republic, an updating of the old, unhappy story:

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Fuqua Industries. Out in San Diego. (p. 115)

Isn't Fuqua Industries an Atlanta-based company?

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  1. Zachary Lazar (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown
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Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 0316037680
Page Count: 240

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