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The iron-fisted detective had revealed a more tender side to his character, and no one was more surprised and delighted than his fellow cops. The news circulated rapidly at Mulberry, and on Tuesday morning, detectives and bluecoats waited impatiently for the man of the hour to arrive.

When a solemn-faced Petrosino walked in, the men stood up and burst into a raucous ovation. Deputy Commissioner Woods, inspectors, even rookies clapped him on the back. The Black Hand by Stephan Talty. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed.

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Beginning in the summer of , an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and invisible.

Their only calling card: the symbol of a black hand. The crimes whipped up the slavering tabloid press and heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Dubbed the "Italian Sherlock Holmes", he was a famously dogged and ingenious detective and a master of disguise. As the crimes grew ever more bizarre and the Black Hand's activities spread far beyond New York's borders, Petrosino and the all-Italian police squad he assembled raced to capture members of the secret criminal society before the country's anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe.

Petrosino's quest to root out the source of the Black Hand's power would take him all the way to Sicily - but at a terrible cost. Unfolding a story rich with resonance in our own era, The Black Hand is fast-paced narrative history at its very best.

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I had never heard of The Black Hand. Love the time period as well. All around good listen. From what I know very few Italians either know or admit to their history and yet it's so rich with details and history. Skip this one. Too many names and stories to follow casually by listening. It's really a book about Joseph Petrosino. He certainly deserves it and a whole lot more than the minor accolades history has given him. But the book does give you a good idea of what the black hand was like, how terrible they were, and how ignoring them gave us a century or more of corruption in our major cities.

Maybel we should be learning from them today. The Petrosinos immigrated to the United States in , when Joseph was thirteen. In order to help financially support his family, Joseph left school after the sixth grade and began working full-time shoe shining, earning roughly a quarter a day. Around age eighteen, he was hired as a city street cleaner.