Before the war came, there was a whistle. Not a code, not a radio call, not a handshake or a nod across a parking lot. Just a sound. The kind a man makes when he’s walking through his own building, his own block, his own city. And he wants everyone to know…
Nobody watched Carlo Gambino cross a street and thought they were watching the most powerful man in America. That was the point. He was small, 5’7, maybe less by the time he reached his 60s, thin face, prominent nose, ears that seemed slightly too large for his head. He wore modest clothes,…
May 23rd, 1992. A safe house somewhere in America. The television flickers with breaking news from Italy. Tomaso Bushetta sits motionless. His hands rest on his knees. The news anchor’s voice cuts through the silence with clinical precision. Judge Giovani Falcone has been assassinated. A massive explosion on the highway near Kapati,…
August 30th, 1981. Monroe Street, Manhattan. Benjamin Rogerro stepped out of his apartment building and turned toward the morning sun. His hands were empty. He had left his jewelry on the dresser, his wallet by the fish tanks. Everything of value tucked away where his wife would find it. He knew what was waiting. At…
On February 6th, 2018, Steve Wynn walked out of the company that bore his name for the last time. He was 76 years old, worth $3.1 billion, and responsible for transforming Las Vegas from a desert outpost into a global entertainment capital. Three weeks earlier, he had been untouchable. Now, he…
October 6th, 1984. A cold autumn night in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Jackie Kunan, the older brother of Westy’s boss, Jimmy Counan, walked out of the Skyline Motor Inn on 10th Avenue. He’d been drinking. He’d been talking. He’d been running his mouth to the wrong people for months. A car pulled up….
It’s a hot July afternoon in 1979 and the Dadeland Mall in Kendall just south of downtown Miami is packed with families doing their weekend shopping. A white Ford Econoline van rolled slowly through the parking lot. If anyone had looked closely, they would have noticed the handpainted signs on each side…
It’s 1984 in Miami and a woman is begging for her life inside a rundown bungalow in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. She’s pregnant. She’s on her knees and the men standing over her with automatic weapons don’t care. Minutes earlier, a Jamaican drug dealer had been robbed of his cash…
In vintage photographs of the Danish royal family from the late 19th century, you can spot faces that ruled literally half the world. The Queen of England, the Empress of Russia, the King of Greece… But if you look closely, standing in the shadow of her illustrious siblings, there is always another…
The Kennedys built an empire through marriage. But with every wedding, the shadow grew longer. From 1914 to today, their celebrations have been private because of something that happened over nine decades ago. Turning celebration into secrecy. To understand what happened, you need to go back to where it all started. Back…
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