The object of the game is to defeat one's opponents, and take their marker the first two joints of a finger. Each works for a mysterious 'Voice', a rich man of unknown identity. As their business grows, Buchalter sets his sights on the unions that control the garment maker’s factories, setting up a fatal showdown that could bring them together or shatter their family forever. Harry Exton, an ex-soldier, is a 'Button Man', a hired killer pitted against others in an underground sport. Torn apart by conflict Morris convinces Sol to go into business with him, but Harry can’t be lured away from the glamour, power and money of the mob. Scarred by a family tragedy, Harry falls under the spell of the charismatic Louis Buchalter, who in a few short years becomes the most ruthless mobster in town. For numerous reasons, button men have very limited direct. Sol, six years older, heads to accounting school but is forced to drop out. Button men usually do the dirty work/muscle work for their mob bosses. Divided by ambition Twelve-year-old Morris Rabishevsky apprentices himself to a garment manufacturer with the aim of running the business. In this prequel to The Bookseller, former FBI profiler Hugo Marston has just become head of security at the US Embassy in London. Three brothers grow up poor on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father forces them to find work to support their family. He will soon find out what they all have in common. At the same time, someone is posting the names of the next mark on the Murder Tree. He has a bit of a personal problem - mushrooms are growing all over his body. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. From International Number One Bestseller Andrew Gross, The Last Brother is the thrilling historical novel about three brothers and the Mafia in 1930s New York. Harry Exton was a hired gun, a soldier of fortune, but that was before he was offered the chance to earn even more. The Button Man and the Murder Tree is a weird little creepy story featuring a Mafia assassin. 1936 is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction.
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