Desc: Brotherhood of Evil: With Timothy Gibbs. Set in 1930's New York, Brotherhood of Evil tells the story of the mafia's export of the heroin trade from the shores of Sicily to the streets of Manhattan. It is a sweeping epic told as an original crime drama. Producer's note; The screenplay was written in 1957 (credited 1959) by Ben Hecht, adapted from the book of the same name by Fredrick Sondern Jr.