Cover of Paddy Whacked

Book 2005

Paddy Whacked

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Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Published
2005
  • History
  • Organized crime
  • Gangsters
  • Irish American criminals
  • Nonfiction
  • True Crime
  • Irish americans
  • Crime, united states

Who would have guessed that in the early years of the twenty-first century-in an era of rampant jihadism and global paranoia-the highest ranking organized crime figure on the Federal Bureau of investigation's (FBI) Ten most Wanted List was neither a Mafia don nor a Latin American narcotraficante nor a Russian mafiya, but rather an old-style Irish American mob boss from around the way?