Hard Knocks
“The indictments of mobster mangled Boston continue to rain down in Howie Carr’s superb new true-crime book,Hitman. It’s horrifying, it’s deadpan shocking, it’s a brilliant treatise on criminal psychopathy and a portrait of a city defined and subverted by hoodlums run amok. Read this book—it will grab you, garrotte you, and leave you gasping for breath.”—James Ellroy, bestselling author ofAmerican TabloidandL.A. Confidential,onHitman“It used to be Chicago that had all the brutal gangsters. Now it’s Boston. Howie Carr weaves a frightening tale of unlawful conduct, and it’s all true!”—Bill O’Reilly onHitman