"Two veteran crime reporters reveal the operations of organized crime, narcotics, and prostitution in a careful and precise manner."-- Christian Science Monitor No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962).
In 1931 he engineered the murders of the two reigning New York crime bosses, Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, and quickly.
By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. "Two veteran crime reporters reveal the operations of organized crime, narcotics, and prostitution in a careful and precise manner."-- Christian Science Monitor No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962)