Hitman by Howie Carr
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 one of the city's most notorious criminals in Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld.
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 mob 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 show biz entertainers, Johnny was charismatically colorful--as charming as he was frightening. After all, he was, in the end.a hitman. The paperback edition of Howie Carr's riveting true-crime story includes an epilogue detailing Whitey Bulger's dramatic June 2011 capture.Howie Carr is a renowned radio talk show host that is syndicated throughout New England. He is a native of Portland, Maine. He has raised a lot of eyebrows and voices over the years with his caustic exposes of local leaders. He's known for pushing the boundaries and never admitting when he's gone too far. He has also been on NBC, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Court TV, CNN, and the Fox News Network on a regular basis. Carr worked as the Boston Herald American's City Hall bureau head and then as the paper's State House bureau chief.
Carr's coverage of then-Mayor Kevin White for WNEV, Channel 7, was so unrelenting that when White declared he wouldn't run again, he told the Boston Sunday Globe that one of the things he liked best about his upcoming retirement was not having Carr hound him around the city. He won the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism in 1985, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. He has been nominated for an Emmy Award in television.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780765365316 |
| ISBN 10 | 0765365316 |
| Title | Hitman |
| Author | Howie Carr |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Starscape |
| Year published | 2013-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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