Johnny Rosselli's story is the stuff of a thousand pulp fictions, tabloid headlines and unsolved mysteries. He was the Mob's 'man in Hollywood,' and the last protege of Al Capone. In Handsome Johnny, Lee Server vividly brings to life a man who was involved with the right and wrong people in the powerful world of entertainment, from the glamorous to the business side. He was close with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe.
Moving from Chicago in the '20's, to Hollywood in the '30's, Havana and Vegas in the '40's, and finally being forced to seek solace in Miami, Johnny Rosselli did not live a quiet life and with Server's creative non-fiction techniques, Handsome Johnny comes to life as vibrantly as the best fiction. From Rosselli's humble origins in Italy to his violent death in Miami some 70 years later, this is a great telling of the lesser known tale of one of America's most notorious gangsters.
- ISBN10 0312566689
- ISBN13 9780312566685
- Publish Date 1 December 2018 (first published 5 December 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 October 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 544
- Language English