The Black Hand

This “g ripping account” of the early 20th century organized crime ring chronicles “a lurid and little-known episode in American history” ( The Washington Post ). Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave stirred New York City, then the entire country, into panic. The children of Italian immigrants were being kidnapped and dozens of innocent victims gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome d