Dark Harbor The War for the New York Waterfront

#x1C;They#x19;d never kill a reporter....#x1D;On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded theNew York Sun#x19;s city editor of a similar docks killing from the year before, and so he called over his best general assignment man, Malcolm #x1C;Mike#x1D; Johnson, telling him, #x1C;Lots of unrest down there. Maybe you can get a story out of it.#x1D; Johnson certainly did, discovering the greatest story of his long career, and a #x1C;waterfront jungle#x1D; with #x1C;rich pickings for criminal gangs.#x1D; His crime series ran on theSun#x19;s front pagefor twenty-four days in the fall of 1948, raising a national scandal and bringing death threats on him and his family. Johnson alleged the existence of an international crime #x1C;syndicate,#x1D; at a time when J. Edgar Hoover would not admit that such a syndicate, let alone a Mafia, existed. Herein, Nathan Ward tells the original Mob story, #x1C;revealing a spiderweb of union corruption and outright gangsterism....His story has everything#x1D; (New York Sun), makingDark Harbora modern true crime classic.

Herein, Nathan Ward tells the original Mob story, revealing a spiderweb of union corruption and outright gangsterism. His story has everything (New York Sun), making Dark Harbor a modern true crime classic.