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Long before Brooklyn was known as the world's hippest neighborhood, it was the deadliest.

The seedy, dangerous underbelly of New York City, where mobsters and gangs could commit murder and dump dead bodies

without getting caught. For more than a hundred years, the Red Hook section of Brooklyn

was ground zero for organized crime. Whoever controlled the peers controlled everything.

From the infamous Irish gang known as the white hand at the

turn of the century to the notorious Italian Gallo brothers who ran President Street and everything

else, generations later, the blood-soaked history of Red Hook is the story of American crime at its most powerful,

corrupt, and coldly efficient.

It's all here.

The brutal mob hits, bullet storms, and backstabings of the most colorful cutthroats to ever

terrorize the streets.

A rogues gallery of killers with nicknames like the Mad Hatter,

the executioner, Wild Bill, and Peg Lake, the Brooklyn bar fight that gave Al Scarface Capone

his legendary scars, the godfather of America's first Sicilian crime family, whose gruesomely mangled hand could scare men half to death.

And to bring it all home, the author's own eyewitness account of multiple shootings, growing up as the son of a mafia bodyguard.

The book that we're featuring this evening is Red Hook, Brooklyn Mafia, Ground Zero,

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