Chronicles the life of Lucky Luciano, detailing mobster's involvement in the New York underworld from his early days as a hit man, discussing how his reputation was a facade maintained by government agents, and revealing what Luciano did and did not do to help the Allies during World War II.
Minter draws on varied materials including Faulkner's essays, interviews, published and unpublished letters, as well as his poems, stories and novels, to illuminate the close relationship between his flawed life and his artistic achievement.
