John "Red" Shea, 40, was a top lieutenant in the South Boston Irish
mob run, led by James "Whitey" Bulger. An ice-cold enforcer with a
red-hot temper, Shea was a legend among his peers in the 1990s
South Boston, as much as John Gotti, Bugsy Siegel, and Al Capone
were in their time and place. When the actor and producer Mark
Wahlberg, raised in nearby Dorchester, learned of a script based on
Shea's life circulating in Hollywood, he immediately committed to
playing the gangster on screen. A major feature film project is now
in development.
From the age of thirteen, when he started robbing delivery
trucks, to the age of twenty-seven, when he began serving a
twelve-year federal sentence for drug trafficking, Shea was a
portrait in American crime - a bantam-weight, red-headed terror,
brutal with his fists and deadly with a lead pipe, a baseball bat,
or a knife. At fifteen he was selling marijuana . At seventeen he
was handling Bulger's cocaine. At eighteen he was loan sharking and
laundering Bulger's money. At twenty, initiated into Bulger's inner
circle at the point of an Uzi, he was running a multimillion-dollar
narcotics operation for his mentor.
RAT BASTARDS was the first-ever, firsthand account of mob life
that wasn't told by a rat. Red Shea did his crime, then did his
time--and never informed, unlike Henry Hill of Wiseguy, Sammy "The
Bull" Gravano of Underboss, and so many others. Holding fast to the
code of his upbringing, he remained a man of honor.
General
| Imprint: |
William Morrow Paperbacks
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2007 |
| First published: |
2007 |
| Authors: |
John "Red" Shea
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| Dimensions: |
203 x 214 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
282 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-123289-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
|
| LSN: |
0-06-123289-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780061232893 |
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