The riveting true story of the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.
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About author(s): MICHAEL Cannell is the author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
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This is the story of the one man who tipped the balance.
For a brief moment before World War II erupted, America fixated on the delicate balance of trust and betrayal on the Brooklyn streets.
It resurrects a time when crime became organized crime : a world of money and power, depravity and corruption, street corner ambushes and elaborately choreographed hits by wise-cracking foot soldiers with names like Buggsy Goldstein and Tick Tock Tannenbaum. through Reles\' Rise from street punk to Murder chieftain to stool pigeon, ending with his fateful death on a Coney Island rooftop.
Was it a botched escape, or punishment for betraying the loyalty of the country\'s most powerful mobsters? Michael Cannell \'s A Brotherhood Betrayed traces the history of Murder, Inc.
In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel--but before he could testify, his shattered body was discovered on a rooftop outside his heavily-guarded hotel room.
But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all.
The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Commission.
In the Fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York\'s most brutal mob kingpins. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a turning point in Mob history.
The riveting true story of the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc
