New York City · 1910

Apaches of
New York

Before the Five Families. Before Luciano, Lansky, and Capone. There were the Morellos. They built the American Mafia. Now they must save themselves before it destroys them.

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Apaches of New York

Where the saga begins.

The Godfather meets Gangs of New York

New York, 1910. The dreaded Clutch Hand — Giuseppe Morello, the first Boss of Bosses of the American Mafia — has been arrested, and the order he imposed is collapsing. Powerful gangsters move to seize the vacant throne, and East Harlem erupts into war between the self-proclaimed King of Little Italy and the mad bomber Zopo the Gimp. Morello's half-brothers — Vincenzo, Ciro, and Nick Terranova — want no part of it. But when a shocking crime strikes close to home, their days of peace are over. To save the family (and the Family), the brothers must fight a war they never chose. Based on the true story of New York's first Mafia family.

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In 1909, U.S. Secret Service agents shadowed the Morello Crime Family through the streets of East Harlem — recording names, aliases, and surveillance observations in meticulous case files. The Secret Service Dossiers on the Morello Crime Family are based on that real investigative record, reimagined as the documents you'd find slipped inside a manila envelope. Subscribe and receive them free.

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About the Author

Vic Lodato

Vic Lodato grew up in New Jersey watching The Sopranos and listening to the Boss. Apaches of New York is his four-book series about America's first Mafia family — the Morellos — and their fight to survive the underworld they built.

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