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' If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is for you. Globe and Mail A surefire plan that will end his marital and money problems in one swoop what could go wrong?Lenny Ovitz has plenty of secrets, and his wife, Paulina, has become a liability. His life would be so much better without her in it.It s the mid- 60s in Toronto, and Lenny works for a ruthless gangster whose travel agency is a front for a collections racket in the Kensington Market area. Lenny s days are spent with his partner, Gabe, terrorizing the locals into paying protection on their shops and their lives. On the side, Lenny and Gabe co-own a tenement block that they bought with dirty money borrowed from shady individuals. Overextended, Lenny plans to pay them back with more borrowed money from other loans and by re-mortgaging his house, without the knowledge of his wife.Tired of his lies and scheming, Paulina demands a divorce. Lenny is certain she s going to take him for everything, leaving him unable to pay the debt on the tenement block. And that s likely to get him pitched off one of his own rooftops. Lenny would rather get than be gotten, so he comes up with a surefire way to end both his marital and money problems Paulina s going to have to get whacked.'