International gangsterdom's most colorful character interpreted by
two men well equipped to convey his unique rise to fame (or
infamy). Feder is the author of Murder. In?? and knows his
underworld. Joesten is a reporter and his interview with Luciano in
Italy in 1953 makes a climactic finale to the scandal packed story
of a man who got away with too much and got a soft deal at the end.
The authors go back to Salvatore Luciano's parents, who were
sulphur pit workers in Palermo. They emigrated- and their son went
the way of many other east side kids, taking on a succession of
rackets, from petty dope peddling to pimping and politicking.
Though Salvatore had his ups and downs, he differed from the others
in that he had brains and poise. His ability carried him well along
into Mafia circles, before a savage beating from which he emerged
alive earned him the nickname of "Lucky", and preluded his becoming
boss of the ring. The protective portals of fearful top brass in
politics shielded him- as it does others of his kind- from the
ultimate price of crime. Thoroughgoing with perhaps too much of an
aura of scoop journalese though they throw their punches with
assurance. Graphic, saleable. (Kirkus Reviews)
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 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, based on years of research
and dozens of interviews with Luciano himself and among other
firsthand accounts. First published in 1954 but long out of print,
this book authenticated, for the first time, the far-reaching and
sinister operations of the international crime syndicate,
International, and its direction by the keenest criminal mastermind
in American history.
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