LUCKY LUCIANO: THE REAL AND THE FAKE GANGSTER
Book ID/图书代码： 00530016B87847
English Summary/英文概要： For the first 25 years of his criminal career, Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multi-millionaire king of the New York underworld. For the next 25 years of his life, Luciano was a legend—but a fake master criminal without real power, his evil reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars. That is the astonishing conspiracy revealed in Tim Newark’s myth-busting book.Drawing on secret government documents from archives in America and Europe, Newark tells the real story of the legendary gangster from his early days as a top hit man for the mob to his exploits running sex and narcotics empires. Newark reveals for the first time, Luciano’s transatlantic trip to Nazi Germany to set up a drugs importing racket. Then comes prison for Luciano—but his reputation is only enhanced when it is claimed that he is winning World War Two for the Allies with secret help during fighting in Sicily and the Mediterranean. Through painstaking research, Newark exposes the truth about what Luciano really did do to help the Allies in the war.
With his expulsion from the USA, Luciano returned to Italy where he became the arch villain for international law enforcement agencies. He was reputed to head a massive transatlantic narcotics network, but Newark reveals how Luciano was being used by government agents to justify their own bloated law-enforcement budgets. It was an extraordinary conspiracy in which Luciano—the fake master criminal—became the victim of far bigger powers around him. Newark provides evidence that, at one time, he was even working as a Cold War agent, helping the US government fight Communism in Sicily. It is an extraordinary story that has never been told before—in which the American Mafia becomes entangled with foreign war and Cold War conspiracy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在犯罪生涯第一个25年里，查理•卢西安诺(江湖绰号人称Lucky福星卢西安诺)从一名凶残的暴徒，一跃蹿升成为纽约黑社会的富翁。在他接下去的25年里，卢西亚诺成为了一个传奇 — — 这位被架空的所谓黑帮大佬，最终因其滔天的恶性被政府探员锁进了监狱。蒂姆•纽瓦克将在本书中透露这一个惊人阴谋。
从美国和欧洲的档案中翻找出的政府机密文件，纽瓦克向我们讲述了这一充满传奇的歹徒真实故事，从早年作为顶级杀手，到他利用性和毒品所建立的黑金帝国。纽瓦克首次揭示了，卢西亚诺横跨大西洋两岸，到纳粹德国时期，所设立药物进口交易。这之后，锒铛入狱的卢西亚诺 — — 只是为了名声，他声称自己当时是在秘密协助盟军在西西里和地中海战斗期间赢得二次世界大战。通过深入细致地调查研究，纽瓦克公开了卢西亚诺为何要在战时帮助盟军的真实意图。
当被美国驱逐出境，卢西亚诺回到意大利，此时的他成为国际执法机构的头号恶棍。他被誉为是大规模跨大西洋毒品网络的黑帮大佬，但纽瓦克揭示了卢西亚诺如何被用于政府特工用以证明是过度臃肿执法预算下的牺牲品。这是卢西亚诺的一个天才阴谋， — —这位所谓的犯罪大师 — — 成为权力倾轧的牺牲品。纽瓦克提供证据，在一段时间，他甚至为冷战的一名间谍，帮助美国政府对抗西西里岛的共产主义。这是一个从未向世人揭示的精彩故事 — — 在美国的黑手党和美国政府对外战争冷战阴谋纠缠不清。（Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况："Great detective work here. Tim Newark has uncovered fascinating new angles on the Lucky Luciano story and tells it well." -John Dickie, best-selling author of Cosa Nostra "Tim Newark’s beautifully written and thoroughly researched studies offer new information and penetrating insights on hitherto little known chapters in the history of American organized crime." -Robert Rockaway, best-selling author of The Lives and Crimes of Jewish gangsters
"absorbing and well-researched biography." –Booklist
"Never has there been a greater challenge to mafiaphiles than the recent release of Tim Newark’s book, Lucky Luciano: The Real and the Fake Gangster. Newark concludes that while Luciano played a pioneering role in modernizing the rackets during and after Prohibition, the jig was largely up after he went to jail on vice charges in 1936. In the final years of his life, ‘Charlie Lucky’s’ name was used as a proxy for anything sinister and seemingly organized. Luciano is a fascinating case of how criminals are made, broken - and made again." -Eric Dezenhall, Huffington Post
"Newark shows us a different take on the Mafia and especially on one of its star attractions. It’s a relatively short book, built more for speed than intensity. After reading it, you may never think of big-time organized crime lords quite the same way again." -Doug Bentin, bookgasm.com
"Tim Newark gives us an excellent Lucky Luciano with a wide-angle view of the gangster’s life and misdeeds based upon solid research and a critical examination of what has been written about him so far… Tim Newark tells the whole fascinating story in precise language following impeccable research and a passion for detail that makes this book such an engaging experience. We highly recommend it to all those searching for the truth about the Mob." -Robert Miller, Enigma Books
" Living in the United States now, I’m trying to read exciting books about the place and have hugely enjoyed Tim Newark’s well-written and well-researched biography of the Mafia boss Lucky Luciano." -Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year 2010
About the Author/作者介绍： 蒂姆•纽瓦克创作了多本广受欢迎的军事历史方面的作品，如《战斗中的黑手党和高地人》。他曾任《图解军事》的编辑、BBC 环球服务有限公司及历史频道电视纪录片的编剧和历史顾问，例如著名的纪录片《希特勒卫队》就出自他手。蒂姆•纽瓦克现任《金融时报》军事历史图书的评论员。近期在美国HBO电视剧热播剧《大西洋帝国》就是根据纽瓦克的《查理•卢西安诺》传记为蓝本而改编的。Tim Newark is the author of several well-received crime and military history books. In 2007, he published The Mafia at War/Mafia Allies(Greenhill/Zenith), which involved extensive archival research in London, New York, Washington, and Sicily. It was very well reviewed by Mafia authorities and praised for its depth of research. This was followed by his myth-busting biography of legendary gangster Lucky Luciano (St Martin’s Press/Mainstream), now published in paperback in US asBoardwalk Gangster to coincide with the second season of the hit HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire.
Most recently, he has published Highlander (Constable) and Empire of Crime (Mainstream), a pioneering study of organised crime inside the British Empire, which made news headlines in the Daily Mail, Daily Express and Metro with its revelatory stories. He has also worked as a TV scriptwriter and historical consultant, resulting in seven TV documentary series for BBC Worldwide and the History Channel, including the 13-part TV series Hitler’s Bodyguard. He featured in a WMR/Yesterday documentary series, Secret War, talking about the Mafia in World War Two. He has contributed articles and book reviews to the Financial Times, Telegraph and TimeOut.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：US: St Martin’s Press; UK: Mainstream
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