This book reveals the fatal venom of money and its wide-ranging effects.
Money. The success standard used by society. Your pass to a life of opulence, influence, and sensual delights. How is it possible that money has a poisonous side?
We travel in time to a period and place where few have ever been permitted admission in order to tell this story:

For the first time ever, a family member gives us an inside look at the private life of Johnny Torrio, one of the most influential people of the 20th century.

The American Dream of wealth and power fascinates Joseph, an ordinary adolescent from Montréal. However, he struggles with the religious teachings and his parents’ repeated cautions about the negative aspects of money.

He unintentionally finds a newspaper piece that exposes a sinister family secret.

Joseph was shocked to learn that Johnny Torrio, who had once worked for Al Capone, was his great uncle. This astounding discovery sparks a passion with the truth.
Was his great uncle a remarkable success story or one of the worst offenders in America?

Joseph is frustrated by his parents’ lack of response, and his search takes him to his old aunt Tina. An investigation assignment turns into a lengthy, cross-continental journey for the family. He reaches adulthood when confronted with upsetting realisations about how the Poison of Money has permeated society.

This reunion is prevented by greed. The family is subject to unimaginable curses. In “The Ten Commandments,” Joseph draws an unsettling comparison to the Pharaoh’s curses. However, the Torrio story has just nine curses.

At this point, the story ought to come to a close with an adult Joseph considering how The Poison of Money and the nine curses that afflicted the Torrios are related. A tenth curse, however, exists.

A TANTALIZING INSIDE LOOK OF JOHNNY TORRIO LEGEND AND TRUTH!

Torrio is known as the man who brought Al Capone to Chicago, but there is so much more to this story.  From Chicago to  New York, Montreal, Italy and Cuba, this book skillfully weaves in family dynamics, greed, envy, humor, survival and the famiglia ties that bind… and destroy.  As the great-nephew of Johnny Torrio, he reveals never-heard before family stories and secrets; they are fascinating, gripping and all true. When it comes to family, there  are no secrets. –  MK Knight – Mob Historian and Mob Museum author