Kyle Mccaskill
Harlem, 1935. The streets still smolder from Dutch Schultz’s bullet-riddled corpse when two kings rise from the ashes-Bumpy Johnson, Harlem’s sharp-suited savior, and Lucky Luciano, the Sicilian schemer who built an empire on blood and bribes. Their pact is simple: control the streets, or let the streets control you.But in a city where loyalty is currency and betrayal is survival, even kings kneel to darker gods.Bumpy trades bullets for ledgers, protecting Harlem’s soul from Luciano’s heroin pipeline. Luciano plays puppetmaster, dangling cops and judges like marionettes. Yet when rival gangs paint Harlem red and the Feds close in, their alliance fractures. Friends become informants. Wives become spies. And a single misstep could ignite a war that drowns New York in fire.Inspired by true events and pulsing with the ruthless energy of Goodfellas and The Godfather, Made Men of Harlem & Manhattan is a visceral plunge into the underbelly of power.Witness the secret sit-downs where Luciano’s Syndicate sold Harlem to the highest bidder.Feel the trigger-finger tension as Bumpy battles traitors in his ranks and demons in his past.Unravel the web of lies that binds a Black kingpin and a mobster king-until death do them part.Praise for Made Men of Harlem & Manhattan:'A masterpiece of moral rot and razor-sharp suspense. If Scorsese wrote a history book, this would be it.''The Godfather meets Harlem’s untold story-brutal, brilliant, and impossible to put down.'For fans of: The Wire, Mario Puzo’s underworld sagas, and the true crime grit of Killers of the Flower Moon.
