In the novel, as well as in the sequel/prequel, before there was Cosa Nostra in America there was the Black Hand in the early 20th century. The Black Hand in Italian/Sicilian-American communities in major cities was not a gang but an extortion method that was often perpetrated by freelance criminals against prominent Italian-Americans. Vito Corleone (after killing the neighborhood extortionist Don Fanucci) became a Black Hander but not nearly as predatory as was his predecessor. This was before the formation of Cosa Nostra "crime families" that came decades later.
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