Spotlights the lives of prominent mobsters and organized-crime syndicates from the early twentieth century to the present, and includes Al Capone, "Lucky" Luciano, the Purple Gang, the Russian Mafia, and more.
Thirteen-year-old Socko and his mother leave their cramped, unsafe inner city apartment and move to a house in a new suburban development where they plan to care for Socko's crotchety great-grandfather, but when they arrive they discover that the rest of the homes are unfinished, they are the only residents of Moon Ridge Estates, and that trouble has followed them.
The gravely injured Blade wakes up in the hospital knowing that whoever attacked him will be back to finish him off, so he sets out to save his own life and the lives of Mary and little Jaz.
Two ruthless gangs of warlords fight over the bombed-out remains of the city of London, until a truce is suggested by the patriarch of the Volson clan, who offers his fourteen-year-old daughter's hand to his blood rival.
Sudhir Venkatesh recounts how he managed to work his way into one of Chicago's must brutal crack-dealing gangs and describes the horrific events he witnessed, and sometimes participated in.
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.
