Binding: Paperback
Description: Journalist Marc Songini presents the brutal and bloody history of Boston's organized crime syndicates in the 1960s and 70s through the life of gangster Joseph Barboza. 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. And 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. From information based on declassified documents and the use of underworld sources Boston Mob: The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer 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 Songini's account is a saga of treachery murder greed and the survival of ruthless men pitted against legal systems and police forces.
Title: Boston Mob The Rise And Fall Of The New England Mob And Its Most Notorious Killer
Author(s): Songini Marc
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250060167
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/19/2015
Category: True Crime