Hitman The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld

by Carr, Howie

• ISBN13: 9780765332394
• ISBN10: 0765332396
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-22
• Publisher: Forge

Summary

Martin Scorcese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk-show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us int the heart of the life of hitman Johnny Martorano and his partnership with Whiltey Bulger adn the infamous Winter Hill Gang. 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.

Author Biography

Howie Carr is a columnist for the Boston Herald. He wrote The Brothers Bulger, which spent eleven weeks on the New York Times bestseller Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulgers Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld; and the crime novel Hard Knocks. Carr hosts a daily four-hour radio talk show syndicated throughout New England. In 1985, Carr won a National Magazine Award, and in 2008 he was elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame. Carr lives in suburban Boston with his wife and their three daughters: Visit him online at www.howiecarr.us.

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“Howie Carr weaves a frightening tale of unlawful conduct, and it’s all true!”

—Bill O’Reilly on Hitman

“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 of American Tabloid and L.A. Confidential