Lord High Executioner

Umberto 'Albert' Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century.

Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City.

What happened in the years in between - and why every crime family had reason to want him dead - is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organised crime.

This in-depth account from Mafia insider Frank Dimatteo is the first full-length book to chronicle Anastasia's bloody rise to found the notorious killer's club Murder, Inc. - featuring never-before-told accounts from those who feared him most...