What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Here is the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime. 50 pages of b/w photographs.

    As recounted in Joey's patented matter-of-fact, regular-guy tone, the target, a low-level numbers "controller," turns out to be an old acquaintance from the neighborhood, the client is a man who once tried to have Joey hit, and there are enough twists and double-backs—not to mention fascinatingly credible mob details and color—to keep Soprano fans up all night. This New York Times best-seller, soon to be a major motion picture from Paramount, is a true-crime classic.

    

    This is the story of Costello's career as a rum-runner, his rise as the founding father of the American Mafia, his role in the end of Al Capone's reign, his political control of NYC, the Kefauver crime hearings, his survived assassination attempt and new chieftain's vendetta. This is the true telling of a legend and an era.

    

    By the age of 13 he had enough poison in his bedroom to kill 300 people, and he was to go on to poison his family and eight others.