T.J. English – författare

Forget Peaky Blinders - meet The Westies . . . Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared.Growing out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the Irish-American gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s.They excelled in extortion, numbers running, loansharking and drug-peddling, and they became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime - then prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani calling them 'the most savage organisation in the long history of New York street gangs'. Upping the ante on brutality and depravity, their speciality when it came to punishment and killings was dismemberment.Theirs was a reign that would last almost twenty years. And their end would come as their own violent natures got the better of them and precipitated a downfall as infamous and brutal as their rise.This revised and updated edition of T J English's debut brings the near-unbelievable story of the Westies to shocking yet compelling life. The Westies is recognised as a true crime classic.

Para los líderes de los bajos fondos Meyer Lansky y Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Cuba era la mejor esperanza para el futuro del crimen organizado norteamericano en los años posteriores a la Prohibición. En la década de 1950, la mafia —con el gobierno de Fulgencio Batista en su bolsillo— era la dueña de los hoteles de lujo y los casinos más grandes de La Habana, empezando un boom turístico sin precedentes, con los entretenimientos más extravagantes, las estrellas más famosas, las mujeres más hermosas y juego en abundancia. Pero los sueños de los mafiosos chocaron con los de Fidel Castro, Che Guevara y otros que dirigieron una insurrección del pueblo contra el gobierno de Batista y sus socios extranjeros— una épica batalla cultural que es capturada en este libro en toda su atractiva, decadente y espantosa gloria.

Forget Peaky Blinders - meet The Westies . . . Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared.Growing out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the Irish-American gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s.They excelled in extortion, numbers running, loansharking and drug-peddling, and they became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime - then prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani calling them 'the most savage organisation in the long history of New York street gangs'. Upping the ante on brutality and depravity, their speciality when it came to punishment and killings was dismemberment.Theirs was a reign that would last almost twenty years. And their end would come as their own violent natures got the better of them and precipitated a downfall as infamous and brutal as their rise.This revised and updated edition of T J English's debut brings the near-unbelievable story of the Westies to shocking yet compelling life. The Westies is recognised as a true crime classic.

James ''Whitey Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. A polished, sophisticated psychopath, Bulger''s Boston reign of fear lasted 20 years – he was second only to Osama bin Laden on the FBI''s most wanted list. Captured after 16 years in hiding, he now sits in a maximum security prison awaiting trial on racketeering charges and 19 counts of murder. But Bulger will have his payback: at trial he has promised to lift the lid a toxic conspiracy of federal agents, cops, judges and politicians that helped enforce his rule. Combining first-rate reporting and the storytelling of a novelist, T.J. English has been writing about men like Bulger for over two decades. Here, in addition to coming face to face with Whitey, you''ll discover hitman Joesph ''Mad Dog'' Suliivan''s favoured assassination method, you''ll meet Eric Vassel, the Jamaican rudeboy who took on the Italian mob, you''ll travel deep into the Mexican/American narcosphere as English takes his readers on a bloody but fascinating journey to the dark side of the American Dream.