Murder Inc / The Story of the Syndicate Killing Machine

Murder Inc. by former Brooklyn D.A. Burton B. Turkus and veteran A.P. war correspondent Sid Feder is the riveting true crime classic that rips the lid off the national crime Syndicate"s "killing machine" that took 1,000 lives nationwide during the 1930's and 40's. In a page-turning non-fiction account that reads like a crime thriller, Turkus and Feder take us behind the scenes with the untold story of how Sicilian gangsters Lucky Luciano, Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis partnered with Jewish gangsters Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Louis "Lepke" Buchalter to create a multi-million rackets enterprise that included, gambling, prostitution, union corruption and the lucrative murder-for-hire scheme that operated out of the back of a Brooklyn Candy Store. After he was able to turn, Murder Inc.'s chief killer, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, Turkus eventually sent Lepke and six other mobsters to the electric chair. This 1951 best seller by Turkus & Feder which has sold more than a million copies worldwide is now available in a new updated edition complete with mug shots and bios of the original gangsters who spilled so much blood from coast to coast. With a new Forward by five-time Emmy winning former ABC News correspondent and investigative reporter Peter Lance, this edition of Murder Inc. will introduce a new generation of true-crime readers to the most lethal underworld enterprise ever exposed.

Burton B. Turkus, the Assistant District Attorney in Kings Country (Brooklyn) sent Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and six other Murder Incorporated gangsters to the electric chair. After breaking up the Syndicate "Killing Machine," he went on to become one of the most successful labor negotiators in New York history during the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. Co-author Sid Feder was a veteran war correspondent during World War II. For 17 years he covered crime and other national stories for the Associated Press and wrote dozens of articles for the Saturday Evening Post, True and Collier's magazine among others.