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Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell’s Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City’s West Side. They became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime, excelling in extortion, numbers running, loan sharking, and drug peddling. Upping the ante on depravity, their specialty was execution by dismemberment. Though never numbering more than a dozen members, their reign lasted for almost twenty years—until their own violent natures got the best of them, precipitating a downfall that would become as infamous as their notorious ascension into the annals of crime.

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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 06, 2007 Type: User Review Great Book a little contradictory though

I love this book, it's one of my new favorites. I bought if after watching a Histories Mysteries episode on the History channel about Mickey Featherstone on St. Patricks Day. It's a great book but if you pay attention some of the things in this...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 07, 2007 Type: User Review Great true crime novel.

Mickey Featherstone is fresh out of Vietnam and back into the old neighborhood "Hells Kitchen". After meeting up with old friends and making new ones he became one of the leaders in the feared Irish mob. Then he is put into a position no gangster...
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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 02, 2006 Type: User Review A classic of the genre

After fifteen years in publication this book "The Westies" still holds its power. I read it when it came out and was blown away. Reading it again years later I am still impressed with the intimacy and also the historical framework for the story....
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 20, 2006 Type: User Review Interesting but disjointed

Westies is a very interesting book about the so-called Hell's Kitchen "Irish Mob." As true crime and mob books go, it's good. English does a nice job of holding the reader's attention with lots of (often gory) details seemingly gleened from...
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