Hitman : : the Untold Story of Johnny Martorano : Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld
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Includes index.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Miami 2008 -- "Always be a man" -- Apprentice gangster -- Gang war -- The animal flips -- Bwan Johnny -- The Winter Hill Gang -- Indian war -- Glory days -- The bubble bursts -- The fugitive -- The last hit -- "You can't rat on a rat" -- Where are they now : 2010.
Crime reporter Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano. For two decades, Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty murders--for which Johnny would serve twelve years in prison. Carr also looks at the politicians and FBI agents who aided Johnny and Whitey, and at the flamboyant city of Boston, which Martorano so ruthlessly ruled. A plethora of paradoxes, Johnny Martorano was Mr. Mom by day and man-about-town by night. Surrounded by fast-living politicians, sports celebrities, and showbiz entertainers, Johnny was charismatically colorful--as charming as he was frightening. After all, he was, in the end, a hitman.--From publisher description.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Forge, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 464 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780765326393
0765326396
SUBJECTS
Martorano, Johnny, -- 1940-
Gangsters -- Boston -- Biography.
Murderers -- Boston region -- Biography.
Organized crime -- Boston -- Case studies.