Lucky Luciano, his amazing trial and wild witnesses

This is the story of Charlesy "Lucky" Luciano and one of the most amazing trials of a major underworld mobster. When Thomas E. Dewey, then special prosecutor of rackets in Manhattan, smashed Luciano's world, he brought to the public attention the most corrupt alliances of organized crime and politics of the nineteen thirties. Hickman Power brings to life the influence Lucky Luciano had on such characters as Cokey Flo Brown, Good-Time Charley, Jennie the Factory, Crazy Moe, Gashouse Lil, and Frisco Jean Erwin. As the trial moves through its stages, the lives of these wild witnesses depict shocking regions of humanity. Although originally published in 1939, this saga of one of the world's most dangerous criminals could be headlines today.