Rich Cohen has written for the New Yorker, the New York Observer, the New York Times and many other magazines. He is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. He lives in New York City.
A terrific storyteller, drawing you right into the tenements where
young thugs were recruited, the shooting wars and the perceived
betrayals, the labour rackets and all-night card games...Few of the
tough Jews Cohen writes about lived to see the inside of a
recruitment community. They died young and they died out. But this
is a dazzling tribute to their courage and to their cool.
*The Times*
In the history of American crime - organised crime - Italian names
predominate, but there was a time when Jewish names ran them
close...Rich Cohen...grew up long after the events he describes,
but he has still managed to write an intensely personal book...It
is an exciting story...In filling in the detail, Cohen doesn't just
rely on family legend, or his imagination: he has done a great deal
of research in police archives. But it's the sense of personal
involvement which gives the book its pace and its energy...highly
readable.
*Sunday Telegraph*
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