Charles Brandt
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Language
English
Description
The Irishman is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, Sheeran's story chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and it offers a monumental...
4) The Irishman
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Wisecracking cop Lou Razzi's zeal, dedication and talent for extracting information from suspects make him destined to rise quickly through the ranks . . . until a frame-up sends him to jail for two years. He loses his career, his marriage, and his baby daughter, and following his release from prison, he leaves the country for a sort of self-imposed exile in Brazil. Fifteen years later, an exonerated, more hardened Razzi comes back to serve a single...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Language
English
Description
Lin DeVecchio provides a detailed account of the events surrounding the accusation that he, a supervisory special agent for the FBI agent, ordered four people to be murdered by the mafia, describes his role in the New York mafia wars from the 1970s through the 1990s, and discusses the other crimes he was accused of during his years of service.