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FINALIST FOR THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTION 2016 FINALIST
FOR THE MACAVITY AWARD 2016 The year is 1936. Charles 'Lucky'
Luciano is the most powerful gangster in America, Mob overlord and
bootlegger millionaire. Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young
prosecutor determined to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown -
grifter, heroin addict and sometime prostitute - is the witness who
claims she can do it. Only a wily defence attorney named George
Morton Levy stands between Lucky and a life behind bars, and
between Dewey and the New York Governor's mansion. As the Roaring
Twenties give way to the austere reality of the Great Depression,
four lives, each on its own incandescent trajectory, intersect in a
New York courtroom. The events of this seminal Mob trial will
introduce America to the violent and darkly glamorous world of
organised crime, and leave its culture, laws and politics for ever
changed.
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