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Boardwalk Gangster: The Real Lucky Luciano
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About Boardwalk Gangster: The Real Lucky Luciano
About the Author Tim Newark is the author of Boardwalk Gangster and Mafia Allies and the editor of Military Illustrated, and he has contributed book reviews to the Financial Times, Time Out, and the Daily Telegraph. He has worked as a scriptwriter and consultant for seven TV documentary series for the History Channel and BBC Worldwide. He lives in London. Product Description 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. Review “A fascinating case of how criminals are made, broken--and made again.” ―The Huffington Post “Well written and well researched.” ―The Telegraph (Books of the Year) (UK) “This interesting book separates the truth about Luciano from the stories and movies about his life.” ―The Oklahoman “A must for true-crime fans.” ―News of the World (UK) “Newark provides what is, probably, the most balanced biography of a man who often claimed to be a victim, but had little thought for his own victims.” ―BBC History Magazine “Great detective work here. Tim Newark has uncovered fascinating new angles on the Lucky Luciano story and tells it well.” ―John Dickie, author of Cosa Nostra “Tim Newark's beautifully written and thoroughly researched studies offer new information and penetrating insights on hitherto little-known chapters in the history of American organized crime.” ―Robert Rockaway, author of But He Was Good to His Mother “The victory of Mafia Allies is the depth the author brings to the subject.” ―New York Post on Mafia Allies “Mafia Allies follows the fortunes of the Italian and American Cosa Nostra during the Second World War and brilliantly explodes a large number of myths in the process.” ―Daily Telegraph (UK) on Mafia Allies Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Boardwalk Gangster The Real Lucky LucianoBy Tim Newark St. Martin's GriffinCopyright © 2011 Tim Newark All right reserved. ISBN: 9781250002648 Boardwalk Gangster 1LUCKY IN NAZI GERMANYJack Diamond, thirty-four years old, successful owner of the Hotsy Totsy Club on Broadway in New York City, rested comfortably in the plush surroundings of a first-class passenger car on the Ostend-Vienna Express on the evening of September 1, 1930. He'd had a wine-fueled dinner and was chatting away to four other gentlemen attired in elegant suits. The next day they would be in Germany, but at midnight the express shuddered to a halt on the frontier at Aix-la-Chapelle. German police--armed with Luger nine-millimeter Parabellum pistols--clattered through the coaches and asked the Irish-American Diamond to accompany them. As he stepped onto the platform, Diamond glanced up at a poster--it showed a man in uniform with a Charlie Chaplin-style mustache and a swastika in the background.The German police had little interest in Diamond's companions--at least three of who were Italian-Americans--and let them continue on their journey to Cologne. They took the New York club owner to the local police station and questionedhim. They asked him why he was in Germany. He explained that he was on holiday with his companions and because he suffered from stomach ailments he was going to visit one of their famous German spa towns. They asked him if he was the same Jack "Legs" Diamond, the notorious New York gangster. He said no. They then presented him with a set of fingerprints obtained from Berlin police headquarters belonging to t
