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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364 EAN: 9780061232893 ISBN: 0061232890 Label: Harper Paperbacks Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: January 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Release Date: January 09, 2007 Studio: Harper Paperbacks Editorial Review: Product Description: John "Red" Shea, 40, was a top lieutenant in the South Boston Irish mob run, led by James "Whitey" Bulger. An ice–cold enforcer with a red–hot temper, Shea was a legend among his peers in the 1990s South Boston, as much as John Gotti, Bugsy Siegel, and Al Capone were in their time and place. When the actor and producer Mark Wahlberg, raised in nearby Dorchester, learned of a script based on Shea's life circulating in Hollywood, he immediately committed to playing the gangster on screen. A major feature film project is now in development. From the age of thirteen, when he started robbing delivery trucks, to the age of twenty–seven, when he began serving a twelve–year federal sentence for drug trafficking, Shea was a portrait in American crime – a bantam–weight, red–headed terror, brutal with his fists and deadly with a lead pipe, a baseball bat, or a knife. At fifteen he was selling marijuana . At seventeen he was handling Bulger's cocaine. At eighteen he was loan sharking and laundering Bulger's money. At twenty, initiated into Bulger's inner circle at the point of an Uzi, he was running a multimillion–dollar narcotics operation for his mentor. RAT BASTARDS was the first–ever, firsthand account of mob life that wasn't told by a rat. Red Shea did his crime, then did his time––and never informed, unlike Henry Hill of Wiseguy, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano of Underboss, and so many others. Holding fast to the code of his upbringing, he remained a man of honor. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Stand up guys winning score--Stand-up guys 10,Rats 0(years in Pen)Shea can say honestly that he is not a rat because he never turned "states evidence" and plead guilty through plea bargaining.He was a "soldier"in Whitey Bulger's Irish crime mob.His job was as a protector and volume drug dealer. There are no murders or "hits" described in the book,whether because Shea doesn't want to be a "rat",or because he never participated in any.The reader is left to speculate whether Shea was a contract killer or not. Certainly from the level of violence he maintained it would ... Read More Rating: - Rather MindlessJohn "Red" Shea spends his life making sure he is a "man." To him, this means beating up anyone who doesn't conform to his macho teenage code learned on the mean streets of Southie. One would think Shea would have learned a few lessons about maturity after 12 years in federal prison. You don't get that impression after reading his memoir, which is one of several by members of Whitey Bulger's former gang. Shea takes pride in being the only one not to 'rat,' an act akin to him of the lowest human order. ... Read More Rating:  - Well what did you expect from a self-described criminal ?I saw this book and was interested because of the movie The Departed. I saw it in the theatre, and then got the DVD when it came out. Because I am from the area, I knew The Departed was about Whitey Bulger, more than some movie remake of Internal Affairs. Up until now I had resisted the other books about Whitey and the Irish mob in Southie. This one just looked more interesting, and hit me at the right time. I have read the other reviews for the hardcover, especially those ... Read More |
