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Animal : the bloody rise and fall of the mob's most feared assassin /
Before Whitey Bulger's bloody reign, before the Boston FBI was torn apart by indictments and revelations of corruption - there was Joe "The Animal" Barboza. Barboza knew that there were two requirements for getting inducted into the Mafia. You had to be Sicilian. And you had to commit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Northeastern University Press,
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Before Whitey Bulger's bloody reign, before the Boston FBI was torn apart by indictments and revelations of corruption - there was Joe "The Animal" Barboza. Barboza knew that there were two requirements for getting inducted into the Mafia. You had to be Sicilian. And you had to commit a contract killing. The New Bedford-born mobster was a proud Portuguese, not Sicilian, but his dream to be part of La Cosa Nostra proved so strong that he thought he could create a loophole. If he killed enough men, if he did enough of the Mafia's dirtiest biddings, then they would have no choice but to make him a Made Man. His brutal rise during one of the deadliest mob wars in U.S. history became the stuff of legend - both on the bloodied streets of Boston and in the offices of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney General. He took sick joy in his crimes, and it became increasingly difficult for the mob to keep The Animal on his leash. But soon the hunter became the hunted. Betrayed by the mob and now on the run, Boston's most notorious contract killer forged a Faustian bargain with two unscrupulous FBI agents - a pact that would transform the U.S. criminal justice system. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : ‡b illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-251). |
| ISBN: | 9781555538217 1555538215 1299384897 9781299384897 1555538223 9781555538224 |