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The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
T.j. English
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Description for The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
Paperback. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. This edition tells the story of the Westies with snapshots of the men and women of the Westies. Num Pages: 544 pages, 8pp B & W photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. Excelling in extortion, numbers running, loansharking and drug-peddling, they became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime. The then prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani called them 'the most savage organisation in the long history of New York street gangs'. Upping the ante on brutality and depravity, their speciality when it came to punishment and killings ... Read more
Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. Excelling in extortion, numbers running, loansharking and drug-peddling, they became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime. The then prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani called them 'the most savage organisation in the long history of New York street gangs'. Upping the ante on brutality and depravity, their speciality when it came to punishment and killings ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780553819564
SKU
V9780553819564
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About T.j. English
T.J. English is a noted journalist and screenwriter, and is the author of three other books: Old Bones and Shallow Graves, Born To Kill and just published, The Havan Mob. He has written for numerous publications, including Esquire and Playboy, while his screenwriting credits include work on NYPD Blue and Homicide. The Westies was his first book, became a US ... Read more
Reviews for The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
A fast-moving tale of criminal corruption in which, for a change, the good guys win... English pulls no punches
LA DAILY NEWS
Sterling social history... the author's skillful reporting makes the most of his subject
NEW YORKER
Will shock even the most hardened readers
PLAYBOY
First-rate, dramatic and compelling
NEW YORK NEWSDAY
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LA DAILY NEWS
Sterling social history... the author's skillful reporting makes the most of his subject
NEW YORKER
Will shock even the most hardened readers
PLAYBOY
First-rate, dramatic and compelling
NEW YORK NEWSDAY
... Read more