Review: Knock Out Punch
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2013
Joe Bruno delivers a hard punch, well researched, no nonsense book. People need to be reminded about dark periods of history. Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple,From Black Hand to Murder Incorporated uncovers the atrocities committed by men who had neither compassion nor conscience. They lived by power rule of the Corleonesi Mafia who made their bones by killing whomever the bosses said needed to be killed. That rule brought from Corleone, Sicily by Giuseppe Morello and Nick and Vincent Terranova became the Black Hand. Worldwide, in 1880 ,People noticed that the United States was the land of milk and honey. Added to this fact was the law that a three year Grace period existed after which an Italian immigrant became immune to deportation.Fear, hatred,and brutality are brought to our awareness in a most convincing and stark manner. The reader is an observer as chills run up and down the spine. Joe Bruno gives us a glimpse loaded with facts. This history loaded portrayal includes Buggsy Goldstein, Harry Strauss, Happy Malone, Frank Abbandando, Lepke Buchalter,Albert Anastasia and Lucky Luciano. Joe Bruno brings full realism to play and bear upon our psyches.