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Rat Bastards : The South Boston Irish Mobster Who Took the Rap When Everyone Else Ran by John "Red" Shea (2007, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100061232890
ISBN-139780061232893
eBay Product ID (ePID)63731271
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Book TitleRat Bastards : the South Boston Irish Mobster Who Took the Rap When Everyone Else Ran
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicWomen, Personal Growth / General, General, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Sociology / Urban, Criminology
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJohn "Red" Shea
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10 oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.4 in
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Reviews...the only memoir told from the perspective of a mobster who refused to betray the code of silence., ...a slick read dripping with the underworld holy trinity of sex, drugs, and violence...a bawdy page-turner., "...a slick read dripping with the underworld holy trinity of sex, drugs, and violence...a bawdy page-turner." -- Publishers Weekly "...the hottest Irish-American mob story of all time." -- Liz Smith, New York Post "...dish-a-thon on Whitey Bulger." -- Boston Herald "...the only memoir told from the perspective of a mobster who refused to betray the code of silence." -- The Improper Bostonian
SynopsisJohn "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., 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.
LC Classification NumberHV6452.M4S54 2007
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