A Brotherhood Betrayed

The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.

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  • The
  • riveting
  • true
  • story
  • of
  • the
  • rise
  • and
  • fall
  • of
  • Murder,
  • Inc.
  • and
  • the
  • executioner-turned-informant
  • whose
  • mysterious
  • death
  • became
  • a
  • turning
  • point
  • in
  • Mob
  • history.In
  • the
  • fall
  • of
  • 1941,
  • a
  • momentous
  • trial
  • was
  • underway
  • that
  • threatened
  • to
  • end
  • the
  • careers
  • and
  • lives
  • of
  • New
  • York’s
  • most
  • brutal
  • mob
  • kingpins.
  • The
  • lead
  • witness,
  • Abe
  • Reles,
  • had
  • been
  • a
  • trusted
  • executioner
  • for
  • Murder,
  • Inc.,
  • the
  • enforcement
  • arm
  • of
  • a
  • coast-to-coast
  • mob
  • network
  • known
  • as
  • the
  • Commission.
  • But
  • the
  • man
  • responsible
  • for
  • coolly
  • silencing
  • hundreds
  • of
  • informants
  • was
  • about
  • to
  • become
  • the
  • most
  • talkative
  • snitch
  • of
  • all.
  • In
  • exchange
  • for
  • police
  • protection,
  • Reles
  • was
  • prepared
  • to
  • rat
  • out
  • his
  • murderous
  • friends,
  • from
  • Albert
  • Anastasia
  • to
  • Bugsy
  • Siegel—but
  • before
  • he
  • could
  • testify,
  • his
  • shattered
  • body
  • was
  • discovered
  • on
  • a
  • rooftop
  • outside
  • his
  • heavily-guarded
  • hotel
  • room.
  • Was
  • it
  • a
  • botched
  • escape,
  • or
  • punishment
  • for
  • betraying
  • the
  • loyalty
  • of
  • the
  • country’s
  • most
  • powerful
  • mobsters?Michael
  • Cannell's
  • A
  • Brotherhood
  • Betrayed
  • traces
  • the
  • history
  • of
  • Murder,
  • Inc.
  • through
  • Reles’
  • rise
  • from
  • street
  • punk
  • to
  • murder
  • chieftain
  • to
  • stool
  • pigeon,
  • ending
  • with
  • his
  • fateful
  • death
  • on
  • a
  • Coney
  • Island
  • rooftop.
  • It
  • resurrects
  • a
  • time
  • when
  • crime
  • became
  • organized
  • crime:
  • a
  • world
  • of
  • money
  • and
  • power,
  • depravity
  • and
  • corruption,
  • street
  • corner
  • ambushes
  • and
  • elaborately
  • choreographed
  • hits
  • by
  • wise-cracking
  • foot
  • soldiers
  • with
  • names
  • like
  • Buggsy
  • Goldstein
  • and
  • Tick
  • Tock
  • Tannenbaum.For
  • a
  • brief
  • moment
  • before
  • World
  • War
  • II
  • erupted,
  • America
  • fixated
  • on
  • the
  • delicate
  • balance
  • of
  • trust
  • and
  • betrayal
  • on
  • the
  • Brooklyn
  • streets.
  • This
  • is
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • the
  • one
  • man
  • who
  • tipped
  • the balance.
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