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Hard Case Crime
April 2019
On Sale: April 16, 2019
640 pages
ISBN: 1785657704
EAN: 9781785657702
Kindle: B07FRTVNQ7
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Mystery Hard Boiled
ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROHIBITION, LEARN WHAT
REALLY HAPPENED. In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it
illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell
liquor. With this act, the U.S. Congress also created
organized crime as we know it. Italian, Jewish, and Irish
mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to
the millions of people still eager to drink it. Men like
Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy
Siegel, Al Capone in Chicago and Nucky Johnson in Atlantic
City, waged a brutal war for power in the streets and on the
waterfronts. But if you think you already know this
story...think again, since you've never seen it through the
eyes of one of the mobsters who lived it. Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures
in the United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent
"Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition
became law. Over the next decade, Alo would work side by
side with Lansky and Luciano as they navigated the brutal
underworld of bootlegging, thievery and murder. Alo's later
career included prison time and the ultimate Mob tribute:
being immortalized as "Johnny Ola" in The Godfather, Part II. Introduced to the 91-year-old Alo living in retirement in
Florida, Dylan Struzan based this book on more than 50 hours
of recorded testimony--stories Alo had never shared, and
that he forbid her to publish until "after I'm gone." Alo
died, peacefully, two months short of his 97th birthday. And
now his stories--bracing and violent, full of intrigue and
betrayal, hunger and hubris--can finally be told.
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