The Hoods

by Harry Grey

Book Overview

This book by Harry Grey - an ex-hood himself - will shock. Here, he dares to tell the truth about cold-blooded Killer Mobs and how they work. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596543469
• ISBN13: 9781596543461
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Blackmask.com
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

navy

I read many times while serving in the navy, aboard ship at sea.1958- 1962

one of the best reads ever

a story about lower east side jewish mobsters from 1918-1930's...the author tells his story through the narrator, noodles, one of the rough and tumble mobsters...told in a straight-forward manner, we follow these toughs from their time in grade school to the depression and prohibition...there's extortion, murder and lots of mayhem but these guys always come out on top.....then comes the tragic end...the author, harry grey, must have been the noodles character in real life...he has so many stories with vivid details, that can be my only conclusion....he wrote the book in 1952, so at the time most of his colleagues were probably still alive, so he wrote his story, i believe with the fear of retribution, but did do anyway....this is a real mob story if ever there was one....a must companion to the movie, that elaborates on "pipe-dreams." if you saw the movie you know what i'm talking about....shalom

True to Life

Harry Gray's book is the most accurate book I've ever read regarding growing up in the city. So many of his characters, locations and circumstances bring to mind my own youth in the city that I wonder if he wasn't hanging around the corner from me. A must read for anyone although perhaps few may appreciate it's honesty.

Characters and Color of another Age

If a book can be judged based upon the impact of remembrance through the years ,this is the book .I read this as a teenager many years ago and still can reminisce on the almost elegaic memory of "Noodles""Patsy" and the gang.When I saw"Once Upon a Time in America",the score captured perfectly the tone of loss and broken bonds.I searched all over and finally found it.

Great Movie

I have to admit the movie was better but the book was good. Dont listen to those other reviews saying how dumb this book is. This book is great and gives much more detail then the movie. It is different then movie but remember this book came out 30 years before the movie did. It gives you a lot more info on Cockeye and Pasty then the movie does. There are a lot of differences in the book but characters are the same.

My 40+ yr old paperback copy finally disintegrated!

As an impressionable highschooler back in the 50's this book was so interesting I have never forgotten the characters after all these years. The mental images of the New York tenements, the bathroom in the hallway which was shared by these apartment dwellers....the progression of the tough kids growing up. The film 'Once Upon A Time In America' was one of the few movies where your memories of the written story were not distorted by a screenplay version. This is a book that I had to hide, lest my mother would find it and kill me!! I had similar hidden 'treasures of literature' of the same scandalous nature such as Peyton Place, From Here to Eternity, The Amboy Dukes....these were all very controversial in the 50's because they were about sex and profanity...my, how times have changed!