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 was dismemberment. Their reign lasted
almost twenty - their end would come as their own violent natures
got the best of them and precipitated a downfall as infamous as
their rise. This revised and updated edition, brings the story of
the Westies up to date with 'where are they now' snapshots of the
men - and women - of the Westies.
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