{"product_id":"dark-harbor-the-war-for-the-new-york-waterfront-9780312569341","title":"Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"They'd never kill a reporter....\" \u003c\/i\u003eOn the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded the \u003ci\u003eNew York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e's city editor of a similar docks killing from the year before, and so he called over his best general assignment man, Malcolm \"Mike\" Johnson, telling him, \"Lots of unrest down there. Maybe you can get a story out of it.\" Johnson certainly did, discovering the greatest story of his long career, and a \"waterfront jungle\" with \"rich pickings for criminal gangs.\" His crime series ran on the \u003ci\u003eSun\u003c\/i\u003e's front page for twenty-four days in the fall of 1948, raising a national scandal and bringing death threats on him and his family. Johnson alleged the existence of an international crime \"syndicate,\" at a time when J. Edgar Hoover would not admit that such a syndicate, let alone a Mafia, existed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHerein, Nathan Ward tells the original Mob story, \"revealing a spiderweb of union corruption and outright gangsterism....His story has everything\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e), making \u003ci\u003eDark Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e a modern true crime classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathan Ward\u003c\/b\u003e, who was an editor with \u003ci\u003eAmerican Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e, has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYork Times \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, not far from the Red Hook piers. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844319449362,"sku":"9780312569341","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ba3ae83-e717-424c-8165-285832bc1419.jpg?v=1737316829","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-harbor-the-war-for-the-new-york-waterfront-9780312569341","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}