The Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob

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Putnam, 1990 - True Crime - 384 pages
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In the tradition of The Godfather, The Westies is a powerful tale spanning 60 years. A gang of Irish-Americans, the Westies patrolled Manhattan's West Side throughout the '60s, '70s, and '80s. They ruled the tough blue-collar neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, where bodies were known to literally fall from the sky.

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Irish-led criminal gangs have a long history on Manhattan's West Side (formerly known as Hell's Kitchen), the latest being "the Westies,'' seven of whom were recently convicted of racketeering and ... Read full review

Contents

Authors Note II
11
The Ghosts of Hells Kitchen
27
Last of a Dying Breed
44
Copyright

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About the author (1990)

T.J. English's first work in the genre known as "True Crime" was The Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob, published in 1990. It was later adapted into a film called State of Grace starring Sean Penn. His second work, Born to Kill: America's Most Notorious Vietnamese Gang, and the Changing Face of Organized Crime (1995) was nominated for both an Anthony Award and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for best "True Crime" in 1996. Prior to becoming a nonfiction writer focusing on gangs and organized crime, English was a journalist writing for the Irish Voice during the police investigation and subsequent trial of those same members of the Hell's Kitchen mob who were the focus of his first nonfiction work. English, who was born in 1957, continues to do extensive research and write.

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TitleThe Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob
AuthorT. J. English
Editionillustrated
PublisherPutnam, 1990
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized28 Jul 2009
ISBN0399135405, 9780399135408
Length384 pages
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True Crime / Organized Crime
  
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