The Luciano Story

by Sid Feder

Book Overview

"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). By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. In 1931 he engineered the murders of the two reigning New York crime bosses, Joe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306805928
• ISBN13: 9780306805929
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"