Eunice Carter\, assistant district attorne y for the City of New York and Manhattan&rsquo\;s first Black female prose cutor\, has her sights set on the one and only Lucky Luciano\, head of New York City&rsquo\;s five largest organized crime families. Other prosecuto rs have tried to bring down Lucky\, but they&rsquo\;ve all focused on the crime syndicate&rsquo\;s traditional businesses&mdash\;bootlegging\, gambl ing\, loan sharking\, and drug dealing&mdash\;or tax evasion. No one has t hought to approach the mob through its role in prostitution. Until Eunice. But she can&rsquo\;t get Luciano alone.
\nPolly Adler has worked lo ng and hard to build up her high-class brothel business. Her client list i s filled with well-known names\, both the famous and the infamous\, who al l know her booze is top-notch\, her music first-rate\, her food exquisite\ , and her girls the best. But Lucky has gone too far\, putting her girls i n danger\, and Polly finally sees the chance to end his reign once and for all.
\nTogether\, Eunice and Polly fashion a case utilizing a netwo rk of women. Bridging the enormous divide between them and risking their o wn lives\, they assemble evidence bit by bit\, under the nose of the man t hey&rsquo\;re trying to convict. It is this very alliance&mdash\;of two wo men from vastly different worlds&mdash\;that launches the most sensational trial New York City has ever seen.
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Victoria Christopher Murray is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 novels. Her novels\, The Persona l Librarian and The First Ladies\, which she co-authored wit h Marie Benedict\, were both Instant New York Times bestsellers a nd her novel\, Stand Your Ground\, won an NAACP Image Award for O utstanding Literary Work - Fiction. Four of her novels\, Lust\, Envy\, Wrath\, and Greed\, have been made into TV movies for Lifet ime. \;
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Moderat or Dr. Jacinta Saffold is a visiting faculty fellow in th e James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at E mory University. She is an Assistant Professor of African American Literat ure and Culture at the University of Delaware and a digital archivist who teaches 20th and 21st century African American literature\, Hip Hop Studie s\, and the Digital Humanities. Saffold is currently working on her first monograph titled Books &\; Beats: The Cultural Kinship of Street Li t and Hip Hop and the Essence Book Project\, a computational collecti on of popular African American Literature.
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