Boardwalk Gangster by Tim Newark

Boardwalk Gangster by 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.

Tim Newark is the author of The Barbarians, War in Britain, Where They Fall, Changing the Tide of War, and Camouflage, among many other critically regarded military history works. He worked for 17 years as the editor of Military Illustrated and wrote the scripts for seven television military history documentaries, including Hitler's Bodyguards. Tim Newark is a British author who resides in Bath. 'An absorbing history that reads like a thriller,' says one reviewer. 'An incredible tale...' - History Today magazine 'The Godfather meets Band of Brothers.' - Andrew Roberts