“They took their shot. They muffed it.” It’s not every day that someone gets shot three times in the head—and walks away. But then again, Ken Eto was never your average mobster. Known on the streets of Chicago as “Tokyo Joe” and, more insidiously, as “The Jap,” Eto occupied a strange, powerful niche in the Chicago underworld. As the highest-ranking Asian-American ever to work for the Outfit, Chicago’s infamous Italian-American crime syndicate, Eto not only thrived in a system

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