Paddy Whacked
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: February 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780060590024
Subjects: United States; Irish-American criminals; History; History - U.S.; History: World; United States - General; Organized Crime; Criminology; History / General; General; Gangsters
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?