The Incorruptibles

Reviews

“A hell of a story… undeniably gripping.”—The New York Times Book Review "Wolf Boys is a rare book that reads like a thriller without aiming to be one. What Dan Slater does intend for it to be—and what he powerfully succeeds in creating—is an intimate, horrifying journey through a war we know is close and intractable, a war we willfully ignore with the faith that a river and a wall keeps its brutality at bay. With courageous detail and unforgettable characters, Slater will bring you not only to refute such faith, but to feel for the marginalized Americans on both sides of the conflict.”—Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace “Wolf Boys should be required reading, especially for anyone who supports the blood-chilling, appalling trade in illegal drugs.”—Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club “Shocking. Eye opening... Wolf Boys reads like a fictional thriller reminiscent of Brian De Palma’s Scarface, but depicts actual events. If anyone needs proof that we’re losing the war against drug cartels, here it is... A portrait of the evil that stalks our streets.”—David Morrell, author of Murder as a Fine Art “An extraordinary glimpse into old New York’s cauldron of crime, labor, and the Jewish immigrant experience—Slater draws on the recollections of reformers and gangsters alike to put you right in the rooms and the alleyways.”—Paul Collins, author of The Murder of The Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars and Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard “What a great book! The Incorruptibles is a true-crime page-turner that I could not put down. Even those who think they know a lot about the history of organized crime in New York City will know so much more after finishing this fascinating book.”—Tyler Anbinder, author of Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York “If you want to visit New York’s Lower East Side of our great-grandparents, the tenement world of sweatshops, hop joints, and Jewish gangsters, you can build a time machine and set the destination to 1912, or read Dan Slater's wonderful book The Incorruptibles. In prose nearly hallucinatory in its clarity, Dan Slater dramatizes the uptown/ downtown battle that created our modern world as surely as the Spanish American War did. It's nothing but characters, this book—episodes and dazzling excitement." 
 —Rich Cohen, author of When the Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season and Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams “TheIncorruptibles is a story of the underworld, of reformers bent on wiping it out, and of unintended consequences. It's a story of Jewish-America at the turn of the last century that resonates in today's America. It's not just an important book, but the kind where, as you near the end, you'll parcel out pages so as not to finish too fast.”—Larry Tye, author of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend and Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon “If you take your reading pleasures with a shot of unwholesome and a glass of irredeemable, then Dan Slater’s hurly burly new account of old-time New York fixers, bent pols, middle pocket cake eaters, East Side Joan of Arcs, rods, rummys, Abe the Just Rothstein and his racketeer son Arnold is just the pipe for you.”—Nicholas Dawidoff, author of The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice and the American City and The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg Praise for Wolf Boys "The truth is stranger than fiction and sometimes it's much more harrowing. Wolf Boys is one of those times. Dan Slater has put together a riveting story that takes us on an unforgettable descent into the dark heart of the drug trade."—Michael Connelly Expand reviews