The radio talk show host sensation and crime reporter delivers a portrait of gangster Johnny Martorano, whose life inspired Martin Scorseseโs The Departed.
With a new epilogue detailing Whitey Bulgerโs dramatic June 2011 capture
For two decades Johnny 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 murdersโfor which Johnny would serve twelve years in prison. Howie 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 colorfulโas charming as he was frightening. After all, he was, in the end . . . a hitman.
โHowie Carr weaves a frightening tale of unlawful conduct, and itโs all true.โ โBill OโReilly
โThe indictments of mobster-mangled Boston continue to rain down in Howie Carrโs superb new true-crime book, Hitman. Itโs horrifying, itโs deadpan shocking, itโs a brilliant treatise on criminal psychopathy and a portrait of a city defined and subverted by hoodlums run amok. Read this bookโit will grab you, garrotte you, and leave you gasping for breath.โ โJames Ellroy, New York Timesโbestselling author of L.A. Confidential