An excerpt...

...Joseph (Joe Mags) Magnasco wasn’t just another wiseguy. Born into a legacy of street ties and mob bloodlines, he fought in a world war, rubbed shoulders with future mob royalty, and ultimately landed on the wrong side of a power shift that would prove fatal. Whether he was a soldier, a scapegoat, or just in the wrong place at the wrong time — Joe Mags lived fast, played hard, and died young. This is the story the headlines didn’t tell.