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: 1 Stars
I read this half expecting it to be something like Michael Patrick MacDonald's exquisite "All Souls." What a disappointment! As a lifelong Bostonian and former amateur boxer who had a few occasions to interact (marginally) with guys who knew the entire dramatis personae of this book's genre, I would call it a fairy tale. Shea was a second rate amateur boxer and a thug. The book is so self-aggrandizing and insubstantial. And from what I have heard of Whitey Bulger, he did not suffer fools gladly.
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