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Tom & Lucky And George & Cokey Flo
C. Joseph Greaves
Bloomsbury
November 2015
On Sale: November 3, 2015
Featuring: Charles "Lucky" Luciano; Cokey Flo Brown; Thomas E. Dewey
448 pages
ISBN: 162040785X
EAN: 9781620407851
Kindle: B015JJ8THW
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The year is 1936. Charles "Lucky" Luciano is the most
powerful gangster in America. Thomas E. Dewey is an
ambitious young prosecutor hired to bring him down, and
Cokey Flo Brown--grifter, heroin addict, and sometimes
prostitute--is the witness who claims she can do it. Only a
wily defense attorney named George Morton Levy stands
between Lucky and a life behind bars, 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,
introducing America to the violent and darkly glamorous
world of organized crime and leaving our culture, laws, and
politics forever changed. Based on a trove of newly discovered documents, Tom & Lucky
(and George & Cokey Flo) tells the true story of a singular
trial in American history: an epic clash between a
crime-busting district attorney and an all-powerful mob boss
who, in the crucible of a Manhattan courtroom, battle for
the heart and soul of a dispirited nation. Blending elements
of political thriller, courtroom drama, and hard-boiled
pulp, author C. Joseph Greaves introduces readers to the
likes of Al Capone, Dutch Schultz, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy
Siegel while taking readers behind the scenes of a corrupt
criminal justice system in which sinners may be saints and
heroes may prove to be the biggest villains of all.
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