Frank "Superfly" Lucas was the notorious heroin kingpin who dominated the Harlem drug market from 1968 to 1975 with his high-potency smack called Blue Magic.
Mickey Cohen, a boxer turned mobster, ran with Sinatra and Turner, ruled West Coast mob rackets, and persisted in crime despite prison time and paralysis.
Roy Albert DeMeo was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942. He first got a job as a delivery boy for a neighborhood grocery store and started loaning money to friends to make a profit. After high school, DeMeo was making loans to anyone who needed it.
He grew up in an Italian neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, but rather than follow his father into the restaurant business, Tony Spilotro looked for a criminal education on the streets.
The biography of "Nicky Scarfo" reveals the life of one of the most violent American mafia bosses in the past half century. It explores Scarfo's fast rise within the ranks of the Philadelphia Mob--as soldier, consigliere and finally as boss.
