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Also by Howie Carr:

Killers, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Hitman, May 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Hitman, May 2011
Hardcover
The Brothers Bulger, February 2006
Hardcover

HITMAN
By: Howie Carr

The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld

Macmillan
May 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
464 pages
ISBN: 0765326396
EAN: 9780765326393
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk-show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano.

For two decades, Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty murders... for which Johnny would serve twelve years in prison. Carr also looks at the politicians and FBI agents who aided Johnny and Whitey, and at the flamboyant city of Boston, which Martorano so ruthlessly ruled.

A plethora of paradoxes, Johnny Martorano was Mr. Mom by day and man-about-town by night. Surrounded by fast-living politicians, sports celebrities, and showbiz entertainers, Johnny was charismatically colorful--as charming as he was frightening. After all, he was, in the end... a hitman.

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