The black hand

Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear.

The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down.

Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths.

The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and invisible.

Their only calling card: the symbol of a black hand.

Unfolding a story rich with resonance in our own era, 'The Black Hand' is fast-paced narrative history at its very best.