$43.76
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2019
Summary
Now filmed as ‘The Irishman’ starring Al Pacino and Joe Pesci
‘I heard you paint houses’ are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank ‘the Irishman’ Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the Mob, and for his friend Hoffa.
Sheeran learned to kill in the US Arm…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473651524 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473651522 |
| Author: | Charles Brandt |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton General Division |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
The book Brandt has written gives new meaning to the term ‘guilty pleasure.’ It promises to clear up the mystery of Hoffa’s demise, and appears to do so. Sheeran not only admits he was in on the hit, he says it was he who actually pulled the trigger - and not just on Hoffa but on dozens of other victims, including many, he alleges, dispatched on Hoffa’s orders. This last seems likely to spur a reappraisal of Hoffa’s career. - Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review
My source in the Bufalino family … read I Heard You Paint Houses. All the Bufalino guys read it. This old-time Bufalino guy told me he was shocked. He couldn’t believe Sheeran confessed all that stuff to [Brandt]. It’s all true. - New York Police Department organized crime homicide detective Joseph Coffey
If the made men Brandt rubbed up against during his five years with Sheeran suspected what Sheeran was confessing to him on tape, they’d both have been promptly whacked. - Joe Pistone, retired FBI deep undercover agent and the author of Donnie Brasco
Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical. - New York Daily News
This is the greatest Mafia book I ever read, and I read them all. It is so authentic. - Steven Van Zandt, featured actor, Silvio Dante, in The Sopranos and member of the E Street Band
About The Author
Charles Brandt
Born and raised in New York, Charles Brandt is a former high school teacher, welfare investigator and homicide prosecutor. He has been named by his peers as one of the best lawyers in America. He now lives in Delaware with his family.
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