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Rat Bastards
Shea J
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Description for Rat Bastards
Paperback. John "Red" Shea was a top lieutenant to South Boston's top Irish mobster, Whitey Bulger, and was the only guy to walk the walk and take the rap when the mob boss and his fellow rats turned and ran. Shea did 12 years of hard time to maintain his personal dignity and sense of integrity. This book provides an account of mob life and Red Shea. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 pages of black and white photo inserts. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
John "Red" Shea was a top lieutenant to South Boston's top Irish mobster, Whitey Bulger, and was the only guy to walk the walk and take the rap when the mob boss and his fellow rats turned and ran. Shea did twelve years of hard time in order to maintain his personal dignity and sense of integrity. "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 ... Read more
John "Red" Shea was a top lieutenant to South Boston's top Irish mobster, Whitey Bulger, and was the only guy to walk the walk and take the rap when the mob boss and his fellow rats turned and ran. Shea did twelve years of hard time in order to maintain his personal dignity and sense of integrity. "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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061232893
SKU
V9780061232893
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About Shea J
John "Red" Shea, forty, completed his twelve-year federal prison sentence in 2002 and is now living on the right side of the law and working in Boston, Massachusetts.
Reviews for Rat Bastards
"...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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more