And All the Saints: A Novel

And All the Saints: A Novel by Walsh, Michael. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780446518154.

No crime figure of our time influenced the course of modern American culture the way Owen Madden did. Starting as the leader of the Gophers, the most violent Irish street gang in Hells Kitchen, the immigrant Madden rose to prominence as the leading brewer and bootlegger in Prohibition New York. In due course, he also became Mae Wests lover, the founder and proprietor of the Cotton Club, the owner of five heavyweight champions of the world, the man who gave his childhood friend George Raft his big break in Hollywood, and more. Now, Michael Walsh has created a fictionalized memoir that uses Maddens voice to trace his life from his boyhood in England to his heyday in New York and beyond in one of the most colorful and engrossing books of the season.