271pp+illus. An in-depth portrait of the tough Jewish gangsters - Buggsy Goldstein, Kid Twist Reles, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss - who roamed the streets of Brooklyn in the twenties and thirties. This band of fearless thugs worked hard for their nicknames and made their way from street fights to being the execution squad for a national crime syndicate, working for 'statesmen' such as Siegel, Lansky and Luciano. Notes on Sources, Bibliography and Index.

Organised Crime Mafia Gangsters Mobsters organized gangs