Mafia Dynasty

The Gambinosthey arrived in America from Sicily when the 20s roared with bootleg liquor. For thirty years they fought a bloody battle for control of New Yorks underworld to emerge as the nations richest and most powerful crime family. Now Mafia expert John H. Davis tells their compelling inside story. Here are the chilling details and deceptions that created a vast criminal empire. Here are six decades of the uncontrolled greed and lust for power of such men as Lucky Luciano Frank Costello Meyer Lansky Vito Genovese Albert Anastasia Carlo Gambino Paul Castellano and John Gottimen for whom murder and betrayal were business as usual. From the Gambinos powerful stranglehold on New Yorks construction garment and waterfront industries to the governments onslaught against them in the 80s and 90s Mafia Dynasty takes you into the mysterious world of blood oaths shifting alliances and deadly feuds that will hold you riveted from the first page to the last.