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Animal : the bloody rise and fall of the mob's most feared assassin

Animal : the bloody rise and fall of the mob's most feared assassin

Sherman, Casey, 1969-
Book 2013

"Joseph Barboza is the most dangerous individual known."--FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, 1965 Joe Barboza knew that there were two requirements for getting inducted into the Mafia. You had to be Sicilian. And you had to commit a contract killing. The New Bedford-born mobster was a proud Portuguese, not Sicilian, but his dream to be part of La Cosa Nostra proved so strong that he thought he could create a loophole. If he killed enough men, if he di...

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Assassins United States Biography
Barboza, Joseph, 1932-1976
Organized crime United States History
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ISBN:
9781555538224
Description:
xiii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Prologue
Thacher Island ; September 1967
Deviltry, dirt, and degradation
That pig on the hill
Wild thing
Top echelon
Skullduggery
Uncaged
War
Ruthless men
Deegan
Turning up the heat
The mickey mouse club
The hit parade
Double cross
Deal makers
Deegan
Baron's isle
Ka-boom!
The lying game
A murder in the woods
California dreaming
The ghost of Joe Barboza
Where are they now?
Casualties of the Boston mob war, 1961/1967
Author's note
Control Number:
926258
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