Palabra clave Italian Mafia

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

Explore five powerful New York Mafia families, who ran organized crime in America.

Set in the early 1980s when the construction of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center on the Westies' home turf in Hell's Kitchen promises a financial windfall. Despite being outnumbered fifty-to-one by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies' legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente. But internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI's ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia.

Street kid Pietro Savastano grows up as an adoptive child in a dirt poor family in the Naples slum of Secondigliano. A chance encounter with Angelo, the mob boss of Secondigliano, marks his entry into the world of crime. Amid violence, alliances and betrayals, Pietro discovers at his own expense the price that that this life entails.