<span><span><span>Now back in print, this is a story of one of America’s most powerful and infamous groups of thugs and mobsters. Spawned in Detroit during the Prohibition era, a group of young men grew in power and profile to become The Purple Gang, one of the nation’s most notorious gangs of organized criminals . Alcohol, gambling, drugs and extortion were only some of the methods they used to make quick money. Law enforcement was powerless against the fearless “Purples” whose strong-arm tactics and bribery stretched from the local to the federal level, rendering them truly untouchable. Among the legendary leaders of the gang were Abe Axler, the four Bernstein brothers, and the cruel and violent thug, Harry Millman. When the gang put a contract out on Millman’s life, they imported killers from Murder, Inc. The book is graphically illustrated with 32 pages of photographs depicting the gangsters from their lives on the street to their blood demise.</span></span></span>