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Satan’s Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York’s Trial of the Century
By Mike Dash

I reckon the subtitle of this true life novel says it all. All the ingredients needed to publish a great read are included within the pages of this historical work. Picture, if you will, NY City circa 1900. Ethnic neighborhoods; horse and buggies; gambling parlors; prostitution; corruption; protection rackets; payola; iron fisted law and order provided by unscrupulous police. Then add greed, territorial disputes and general chaos and you begin to get the flavor of Satan’s Circus. You want to travel back in time? Feel the need to relive the experience that our grandparents had to deal with? Want to feel the whack of a night stick by a beat cop? Well faithful reader(s) on my riveting reviews—pick this book up. You will be transported back in time to a time when men and women were trying to survive in a rough and tumble era and a very tough city-NY.

If I may add some personal insight to anyone who is still reading at this point: we as a people have made lots of progress since the 1900’s and have learned from the past on how to improve the present and hopefully the future. But in the course of reading this book, I found some of the crimes committed by both the law and the citizens of yesteryear are the same as are commented today. The moral—read history now before it’s too late.