The Black Hand : the epic war between a brilliant detective and the deadliest secret society in American history / Stephan Talty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talty, Stephan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organized crime--United States--Case studies.

Organized crime.

Italians--Crimes against--United States--Case studies.

Italians.

Italian Americans--Crimes against--Case studies.

Italian Americans.

Extortion--United States--Case studies.

Extortion.

Murder--United States--Case studies.

Murder.

Mafia.

United States.

Mafia--United States--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xix, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

Summary:

Beginning in the summer of 1903 the children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators' only calling card: the symbol of a black hand. The tabloid press heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Joseph Petrosino, a dogged and ingenious detective, and the all-Italian police squad he assembled, raced to capture members of the secret criminal society before the country's anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe.

Contents:

Prologue: "a great and consuming terror"

"This capital of half a world"

Hunter of men

"In mortal dread"

The mysterious six

A general rebellion

Explosion

Wave

The General

"The terror of hurtful people"

"Once to be born, once to die"

War without quarter

The city of living death

Backlash

A secret service

The gentleman

In Sicily

Black horses

Goatville

A return.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Talty, Stephan, author. Black Hand.

ISBN:

9780544633384

0544633385

OCLC:

953710101