Boston Mob: The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer

Title: Boston Mob: The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer
Author: Marc Songini
ISBN: 9780312373634
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 384
Publisher Description: <p>The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. Psychopathic strongman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most feared mob enforcers of all time, killing as many as thirty people for business and pleasure.</p><p>From information based on newly declassified documents and the use of underworld sources, <i>Boston Mob</i> spans the gutters and alleyways of East Boston, Providence and Charlestown to the halls of Congress in Washington D.C. and Boston's Beacon Hill. Its players include governors and mayors, and the Mafia Commission of New York City. From the tragic legacy of the Kennedy family to the Winter Hill-Charlestown feud, the fall of the New England Mafia and the rise of Whitey Bulger, Mark Songini's <i>Boston Mob </i>is a saga of treachery, murder, greed, and the survival of ruthless men pitted against legal systems and police forces.</p>