Boardwalk Gangster: The Real Lucky Luciano, Paperback/Tim Newark

For the first twenty-five years of his career, Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who became the king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five, he was a fake, his reputation maintained by government agents. Boardwalk Gangster follows him from his early days as a hit man to his sex and narcotics empires, exposing the truth about what he did to help the Allies in World War II, and revealing how he really spent his twilight years. Drawing on secret government documents in the United States and Europe, this myth-busting biography tells a story that has never been told before--in which the American Mafia becomes entangled with foreign war and Cold War conspiracy. About the Author: TIM NEWARK is the author of Mafia Allies and has contributed book reviews to the Financial Times, Time Out , and the Daily Telegraph . He has worked as a scriptwriter and consultant for seven television documentary series for the History Channel and BBC Worldwide.