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The Black Hand

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Informationen zum Autor Stephan Talty is the award-winning author of Agent Garbo ! Empire of Blue Water ! and other best-selling works of narrative nonfiction. His books have been made into two films! the Oscar-winning Captain Phillips and Granite Mountain . He's also the author of two psychological thrillers! including the New York Times best-seller Black Irish ! set in his hometown of Buffalo! NY. Klappentext Discover the truth about the Black Hand! as featured in Peaky Blinders Beginning in the summer of 1903! an insidious crime wave filled New York City! and then the entire country! with fear. Zusammenfassung Discover the truth about the Black Hand, as featured in Peaky Blinders Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. 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 seemed both omnipresent and invisible. Their only calling card: the symbol of a black hand. The crimes whipped up the slavering tabloid press and heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Standing between the American public and the Black Hand’s lawlessness was Joseph Petrosino. Dubbed the “Italian Sherlock Holmes,” he was a famously dogged and ingenious detective, and a master of disguise. As the crimes grew ever more bizarre and the Black Hand’s activities spread far beyond New York’s borders, Petrosino 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. Petrosino’s quest to root out the source of the Black Hand’s power would take him all the way to Sicily—but at a terrible cost. Unfolding a story rich with resonance in our own era, The Black Hand is fast-paced narrative history at its very best. ...

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Authors Stephan Talty
Publisher Ebury Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 27.04.2017
 
EAN 9781785037122
ISBN 978-1-78503-712-2
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 153 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
Subjects Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage

New York (City) : Geschichte, Mafia, New York, New York City, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, Organized crime, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909

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