Westies

by T J English

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Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. Excelling in extortion, numbers running, loansharking and drug-peddling, they became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime. The then prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani called them 'the most savage organisation in the long history of New York street gangs'. Upping the ante on brutality and depravity, their speciality when it came to punishment and...Read more
  • ISBN10 0399135405
  • ISBN13 9780399135408
  • Publish Date 19 March 1990
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Language English