Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy's acclaimed Albany cycle
of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack
"Legs" Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond's attorney, Marcus
Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental
excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his
showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the
tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.