Boardwalk Gangster: The Real Lucky Luciano

For the first twenty-five years of his criminal career, Charles "Lucky" Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five years of his life, Luciano was a legend---but a fake master criminal without real power, his evil reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars.

Drawing on secret government documents from archives in the United States and Europe, this myth-busting ...