Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster
by John "Red" Shea
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Author: John "Red" SheaEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN: 0060837160
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: William Morrow
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Summary: 3 Stars
Southie was never an easy neighborhood. The D Street projects, where my mother grew up, may be the toughest part of Southie. Shea captures the authentic, troubled neighborhood and adopts its credo -- never rat. While tough and violent, Shea is not the super hero he makes himself out to be. Throughout the book, Shea brags that, like Whitey, he accomplished his goals with violence, often mindless violence. Growing up fatherless, with little guidance and no discipline, he searches in vain for a father figure to guide him. Although Shea describes himself as "honorable" and effuses over Mark Walberg's "friendship" (Walberg bought the rights to the movie) and trumpets Walberg's not forgetting where he came from, Shea spent his gangster years terrorizing that very neighborhood and poisoning it with cocaine. In the end, he is a tragic figure, hoodwinked like so many others by Whitey. A compelling read.
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