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008			200526t20202020nyua b 001 0beng
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092			_aRELES, A. _bC224
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100	1		_aCannell, Michael, _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA brotherhood betrayed : _bthe man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. / _cMichael Cannell.
246	3	0	_aMan behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bMinotaur Books, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: "Something has happened" -- The rise. Schlammers ; Babylon Brooklyn ; The Commission ; Murder for money -- The downfall. Twenty against the underworld ; Lepke ; Bill-O ; The wedge ; Long song ; Mr. Arsenic ; The dance hall ; Half Moon Hotel ; Kid Twist's ghost -- Addendum.
520			_a"The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a legendary moment in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Syndicate. But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel-until the morning of the trial, when his shattered body was discovered on a rooftop outside his heavily-guarded hotel room. Was it a botched escape, or punishment for betraying the loyalty of the country's most powerful mobsters? Michael Cannell's A Brotherhood Betrayed traces the history of Murder, Inc. through Reles' rise from street punk to murder chieftain to stool pigeon, ending with his face-down death on a Coney Island rooftop. It resurrects a time when crime became organized crime: a world of money and power, depravity and corruption, street corner ambushes and elaborately choreographed hits by wise-cracking foot soldiers in double-breasted suits and zooty fedoras. For a brief moment before World War II took over everything, America fixated on the delicate balance of trust and betrayal on the Brooklyn streets. This is the story of the one man who tipped the balance"-- _cProvided by publisher
520			_aIn the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Syndicate. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel-- until the morning of the trial, when his shattered body was discovered on a rooftop outside his heavily-guarded hotel room. Was it a botched escape, or punishment for betraying the loyalty of the country's most powerful mobsters? Cannell traces the history of Murder, Inc. and resurrects a world of money and power, depravity and corruption, street corner ambushes and elaborately choreographed hits by wise-cracking foot soldiers in double-breasted suits and zooty fedoras. -- adapted from jacket
600	1	0	_aReles, Abe, _d1906-1941.
650		0	_aMafiosi _zNew York (State) _zNew York _vBiography.
650		0	_aAssassins _zNew York (State) _zNew York _vBiography.
650		0	_aMafia _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aOrganized crime _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory _y20th century. _9220392
650		0	_aMurder _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory _y20th century.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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