Tom & Lucky (and George and Cokey Flo)
By: C. Joseph Greaves
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9781408863428; 9781408868997; 9781408863411
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Organized crime; Legal stories; Mafia trials; Fiction
Description: Charles 'Lucky' Luciano is the most powerful gangster in America, Mob overlord and bootlegger millionaire. Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor determine to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown - grifter, heroin addict and sometime prostitute - is the witness who claims she can do it. Only a wiley defence attorney named George Morton Levy stands between Lucky and a life behind bars, and between Dewey and the New York Governor's mansion. As the Roaring Twenties give way to the austere reality of the Great Depression, four lives, each on its own incandescent trajectory, intersect in a New York courtroom. The events of this seminal Mob trial will introduce America to the violent and darkly glamorous world of organised crime, and leave its culture, laws and politics for ever changed.