Lucky Luciano (The Man Who Organized Crime in America) (The Man Who Organized Crime in America)

He was called the Father of Organized Crime, responsible for the famous Atlantic City meeting in which he persuaded Al Capone, Frank Costello, and Meyer Lansky to run crime as a business. Born into poverty in a small Italian village, he came to New York with his parents and spent his youth on the bustling Lower East Side. Growing up in the melting pot, alongside children of Irish, Jewish and Italian descent, he quickly fell in with those dedicated to a life of crime - several of them becoming world-class gangsters. But Charles "Lucky" Luciano would turn out to be the most famous, the most notorious of them all. Read more