The Westies The Westies

The Westies

Inside New York's Irish Mob

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Publisher Description

From a New York Times–bestselling author: A true story of Irish gangsters in Manhattan—“A harrowing account of big city crime” (Library Journal).
 It’s men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell’s Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York’s Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window. Under their reign, Hell’s Kitchen becomes a place where death literally rains from the sky. But when Mickey goes down for a murder he didn’t commit, he suspects his friend has sold him out. He returns the favor, breaking the underworld’s code of silence and testifying against his gang in open court. 

From one of the creators of NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street comes an incredible true story of what it means to survive in the world of organized crime, where murder is commonplace.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2011
November 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
390
Pages
PUBLISHER
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
5.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Lispinchris0721 ,

The Westies great book

Awesome book first book I have read in years not the reading type but I couldn’t put this book down.

leftster ,

The true Irish connection.

An excellent read that depicts a true story, with real facts, of an epic criminal time in our Country. The author presents a series of stories that tie together the "big story." A must read for anyone who relishes this subject.

Irish gangsters ,

The Westies

This book was Recommended to me. A true story about the Irish mob in NYC. The upper west side.

I was young at the time and from Bergen county. The story line was close to where I lived at the time and I remember some of the headlines during that rough period in time.

A good fast read keeping my attention.

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