New book by retired Brooklyn College prof is violent true story: Italian cops vs. mafia

Paul Moses' gripping new book tells a story that begins in Sicily on Friday. March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe Petrosino, the legendary American detective whose exploits in New York were celebrated even in ltaly.