It’s men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who have gave Hell’s Kitchen its name. In the middle-1970s, both of these longtime friends consider the reins of New York’s Irish mob, using brute push to provide it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the innovator. Mickey, whose remembrances of Vietnam torture him daily, is definitely his enforcer. Collectively they make brutality their trademark, butchering physiques or hurling them out the window. Under their reign, Hell’s Kitchen becomes a place where death literally rains in the sky. But when Mickey goes down for the murder he didn’t commit, he suspects his friend provides offered him out. He profits the favor, breaking the underworld’s code of silence and testifying against his gang in open up court.

From one of the writers behind NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the road comes an incredible true story of what this means to survive in the world of organized criminal offense, where murder is commonplace.