The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano Also published by Enigma Books Hitler’s Foreign Policy: 1933–1939—The Road to World War II The Origins of Fascist Ideology 1918–1925 Max Corvo: OSS Italy 1942–1945 Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Balkan Inferno: Betrayal, War, and Intervention, 1990–2005 Calculated Risk: World War II Memoirs of General Mark Clark The Murder of Maxim Gorky The Kravchenko Case: One Man’s War On Stalin Operation Neptune Paris Weekend Shattered Sky Hitler’s Gift to France The Mafia and the Allies The Nazi Party, 1919-1945: A Complete History Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations The Cicero Spy Affair A Crate of Vodka NOC The First Iraq War: Britain’s Mesopotamian Campaign, 1914-1918 Becoming Winston Churchill Hitler’s Intelligence Chief: Walter Schellenberg Salazar: A Political Biography The Italian Brothers Nazi Palestine Code Name: Kalistrat Pax Romana The De Valera Deception Lenin and His Comrades Working with Napoleon The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Target Hitler Truman, MacArthur and the Korean War Working with Napoleon The Parsifal Pursuit The Eichmann Trial Diary American Police: A History Cold Angel Alphabet of Masks The Gemini Agenda Stalin’s Man in Canada Hunting Down the Jews Mussolini Warlord Election Year 1968 American Police: A History, Vol. 2 Spy Lost Deadly Sleep The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano Martin A. Gosch Richard Hammer Enigma Books To my darling Chip, without whom this book could not have been written and who was there from the beginning. M. A. G. And to Arlene. R. H. All rights reserved under The International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Enigma Books New York www.enigmabooks.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the written permission of Enigma Books. Copyright © 2013 by Richard Hammer eISBN: 978-1-936274-58-1 Contents Introduction Part One: Genesis 1897-1927 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Part Two: At the Top 1927-1936 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Part Three: Prison Years 1936-1946 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Part Four: Exile 1946-1959 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Part Five: The Last Years 1959-1962 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Index