When a newspaper article about a murdered mobster from the 1940s is discovered in her grandmothers secret drawer, award-winning photographer and author Jana Marcus is launched into a decades-long quest to uncover her familys hidden history and solve a 75-year-old cold-case. But the search is a mere prologue to a far greater puzzle that takes her deep into the origins of her Jewish immigrant roots, corruption at the highest levels of New Yorks justice system, and a dark underworld of racketeers, gamblers, and self-made millionaires - all leading to one of the greatest unsolved murders in mob history.
