Boston Mob, Marc Songini
Boston Mob, Marc Songini
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Boston Mob
The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer

Author: Marc Songini

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/25/2018

Synopsis

The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. Psychopathic strongman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most feared mob enforcers of all time, killing as many as thirty people for business and pleasure.

From information based on newly declassified documents and the use of underworld sources, Boston Mob spans the gutters and alleyways of East Boston, Providence and Charlestown to the halls of Congress in Washington D.C. and Boston's Beacon Hill. Its players include governors and mayors, and the Mafia Commission of New York City. From the tragic legacy of the Kennedy family to the Winter Hill-Charlestown feud, the fall of the New England Mafia and the rise of Whitey Bulger, Mark Songini's Boston Mob is a saga of treachery, murder, greed, and the survival of ruthless men pitted against legal systems and police forces.

About Marc Songini

Marc Songini is a Boston-area journalist whose work has appeared in the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe and numerous other major publications. He is also the acclaimed author of The Lost Fleet, a chronicle of Yankee whaling and disaster at sea.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrick on June 25, 2016

High in snark. Lacking in direction, or focus. Written for the easily impressed sufferers of A.D.D.......more

Goodreads review by Matt on January 27, 2024

Sloppy: the writing, the action, the “characters”.......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on November 03, 2018

I've read my share of true, but, this is probably the bloodiest book I have ever read. The book centers around hit man Joe Barboza. He's the classic example of a psychopath and the scariest, most violent person I've read about in a Mob book. I really didn't like the style of the author. At certain p......more

Goodreads review by Barry on June 03, 2017

Not very good! Was supposed to be about the New England mob and it's most notorious killer but came off mostly as a comedy. The author obviously thought these guys were straight out of a Three Stooges skit. The second half had a lot to do with Joe Barboza but very little to do with his alleged Most......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on March 08, 2022

This is an interesting read if it is a subject you have an interest in, overal it's a rather poorly written book, but it did touch on a lot of individuals I was previously unfamiliar with, as well as numerous criminal acts I had never heard of. So for me, there was of interest. But I have to say if y......more

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