The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

by Dan Slater

This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime.

In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316427713
• ISBN13: 9780316427715
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 432 Pages