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The Westies - Inside New York's Irish Mob (Paperback)
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The Westies - Inside New York's Irish Mob (Paperback)
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List price R577
Loot Price R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
You Save R134 (23%)
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WHO WERE THE WESTIES?
"THE MOST SAVAGE ORGANIZATION IN THE LONG HISTORY OF NEW YORK
STREET GANGS."
--Rudolph Giuliani
"VIOLENT PSYCHOPATHS."
--"New York"" Newsday"
"SOME VERY BAD BOYS."
--"New York" magazine
Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a
partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey
Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell's Kitchen, a
decaying tenderloin slice of New York City's West Side. They became
the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime,
excelling in extortion, numbers running, loan sharking, and drug
peddling. Upping the ante on depravity, their specialty was
execution by dismemberment. Though never numbering more than a
dozen members, their reign lasted for almost twenty years--until
their own violent natures got the best of them, precipitating a
downfall that would become as infamous as their notorious ascension
into the annals of crime.
"Must reading...will shock even the most hardened readers."
--"Playboy"
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