Paddy Whacked
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: February 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780060590031
Subjects: United States History (Specific Aspects); True Crime; History - U.S.; Criminology; United States - General; History / General; Organized Crime; Gangsters; History; Irish-American criminals; United States
First sentence: Who would have guessed that in the early years of the twenty-first century-in an era of rampant jihadism and global paranoia-the highest ranking organized crime figure on the Federal Bureau of investigation's (FBI) Ten most Wanted List was neither a Mafia don nor a Latin American narcotraficante nor a Russian mafiya, but rather an old-style Irish American mob boss from around the way?