Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront

Theyd never kill a reporter.... On the morning of April 29 1948 a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded the New York Suns city editor of a similar docks killing from the year before and so he called over his best general assignment man Malcolm Mike Johnson telling him Lots of unrest down there. Maybe you can get a story out of it. Johnson certainly did discovering the greatest story of his long career and a waterfront jungle with rich pickings for criminal gangs. His crime series ran on the Suns front page for 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 syndicate 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 revealing a spiderweb of union corruption and outright gangsterism....His story has everything (New York Sun) making Dark Harbor a modern true crime classic.