Dirk and Honey: Sin-dicated [antikvár]

DIRKJames 'Big Boy' Epstein was strictly a New York phenomenon. First-generation Irish-Italian mother, immigrant Jewish father. Or maybe it was the other way around. It didn't make any difference. Out of Hell's Kitchen by way of the Fulton Fish Market, he was strictly illegitimate. Onetime driver and pallbearer for Albert Anastasia, head of many rackets - mostly murder, mostly untraceable - they called him the Jewish Godfather; but Big Boy Epstein didn't know a seder from a sawed-off shotgun. He was an original and nobody got too close.About the time his girl Alexandra went off to Radcliffe to study Oriental religions and the philosophy of nonviolence - this was right after the death of his first wife - Big Boy moved from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to that fabled East Side alleyway in Manhattan called Sutton Place, where billionaires consider millionaires poor white trash down on their luck. Big Boy's pad more than made up for his humble beginnings: three storeys of imported marble fireplaces, antique5