A cross between The Untouchables, and something a bit rougher and readier than that. This is the true story of an Irishman christened The Robin Hood of his neighborhood.
The Irishman in question is Danny Green, a worker on the up. He muscles his way into a union position on the docks, then as an enforcer for a local money-lender in Cleveland. Eventually, his practices come to the attention of local Detective, Val Kilmer. Now is not the time to go on about the state of Mr. Tubs Kilmer, so I won't.
Things get a bit messy when the genuine Mafia starts to try and take him out, blowing up his car and his house, and taking pot shots at him when he was out taking a run.
One news quote made me laugh: "That summer of '76 there were 36 bombs in Cleveland, and the Danny Green war made national news". It says something about the violence of the times when it took Iraqi levels of violence in a small city like Cleveland to make national news.
I won't tell you how it end, but you can probably guess it.
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