Vito Genovese was born in Italy in 1897. He immigrated to the United States in 1913, at the age of fifteen. Genovese got involved in street crime in Little Italy pretty much immediately. He would go on to work for Guiseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria, the leader of the crime family he would one day lead. He was cohorts with Lucky Luciano and several other well-known names in organized crime. This book outlined his life and criminal career. The book was really well done, properly researched, and written by an investigative journalist who can keep a reader's attention.