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Book SynopsisNo 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 Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, and quickly took over the entire New York crime racket. Now Luciano was the Boss of Bosses, the undisputed leader of the National Crime Syndicate which he had established, along with Meyer Lansky, Louis Lepke Buchalter, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello, in the early 1930s. His fall came in 1936, when he was indicted on ninety counts of extortion and direction of harlotry. But in 1945 he was released in return for his cooperation with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He spent the rest of his life in Italy, where he ran the International Crime Syndicate, shipping millions of dollars worth of heroin into the U.S. The Luciano Story is the definitive biography of this legendary gangster, ba
Table of ContentsPart One * Put Up or Shut Up * Lucky Discovers America * Lucky Grows Up * Lucky the Boss * Lucky On the Town Part Two * Lucky In Love * Lucky in the Brothels * Lucky Gets Out * Lucky and Operation Underworld Part Three * Lucky in CubaObject: Homicide? * Admiral Lucky: Piracy, Old Clothes, and High Finance * Lucky and the Slow Murder * Lucky Talks
