Author Dave Copeland discusses new release "Blood and Volume" at moxie DaDA gallery.

moxie DaDA in conjunction with Joseph-Beth Booksellers, introduces Dave Copeland's non-fiction book, Blood & Volume. Copeland will be reading, signing and introducing his new book from Barricade Books at moxie DaDA, on Friday March 23 from 7:00-9:00pm. Free and open to the public, refreshments served.

"Throughout our months of working together, Dave was a man with a mission…he was deep inside an excellent draft of his manuscript, an insider account of the Israeli mafia operating in New York. The story was complicated and challenging, with an array of characters and a narrative line that moved from one continent to the next. Dave was more than up to the challenge. His reporting was thorough and full of human detail, his writing fluid and clear…Dave worked hard, never flinching at the prospect of another rewrite, always looking for ways to give this chapter or that one just a little more pop…I’m thrilled to have worked with Dave. And I wish him all the best with his work and the new book."

-Pulitzer Prize winner Tom French of The St. Petersburg Times on Blood & Volume

The book follows Ron Gonen, a likable rogue and hugely successful cocaine dealer who wanted nothing more than to end a three-decade span as a career criminal and focus on caring for his drug-addicted wife and infant daughter. But Attias had other plans for Gonen, and Ron quickly found himself pressured to join the Israeli mafia or become another name on the long list of Attias’s victims. Gonen’s supposed best friend, Ran Ephraim, complicated the issue, playing the two men against one another as he tried to wrest control of the Israeli mafia for himself.

Dave Copeland spent two years researching the little-known but vicious gang that New York City tabloid reporters dubbed "the Israeli mafia" during their brief reign in New York's underworld in the 1980's. Working with some of the country's best narrative nonfiction writers while enrolled as a student in Goucher College's creative nonfiction writing program, Copeland turned hundreds of hours of research into a nonfiction book that reads like a novel.

Blood & Volume is Copeland's first book. Before jumping into long-form narrative nonfiction, Copeland was an award-winning writer and journalist. His freelance work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal online, Reason, Boston Common and dozens of other national publications. Between 1999 and 2004 Copeland was a staff writer for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where he covered business and politics. His award-winning, 2000 series on the city of Pittsburgh's fiscal crisis accurately predicted the city's financial collapse a full three years before the problem was acknowledged by city officials. Copeland also received awards for his coverage of a 2001 contractor kickback scheme that reached into the upper
levels of Pittsburgh City Council and the mayor's office.

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