The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Moving from one scam to another, Arnold Rothstein quickly becomes rich and settles into the life of owning big-town gambling joints. Along the way he falls in loves and marries, makes a life-long enemy of a cop on the take, and gradually becomes hardened even to his closest friends.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}