Charles Brandt

The Irishman (Movie Tie-In)

Frank Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

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Produktbeschreibung

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES New York Times Bestseller Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award® nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award® winner Steven Zaillian. The Irishman "gives new meaning to the term 'guilty pleasure.''' - Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review "Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical." -New York Daily News "A terrific read." -Kansas City Star The Irishman is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, Sheeran's story chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and it offers a monumental journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, rivalries and connections to mainstream politics. Sheeran would rise to a position of such prominence that in a RICO suit against The Commission of La Cosa Nostra, the US Government would name him as one of only two non-Italians in conspiracy with the Commission. Sheeran is listed alongside the likes of Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano and Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and Brandt turned Sheeran's story into a page-turning true crime classic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781586422479
• ISBN-10: 1586422472
• Artikelnr.: 54837009

Autorenporträt

Born and raised in New York City, Charles Brandt is a former junior high school English teacher, welfare investigator in East Harlem, homicide prosecutor, and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. In private practice since 1976, Brandt has been president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and the Delaware Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been named by his peers to both Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in Delaware. He is a frequent speaker on cross-examination and interrogation techniques for reluctant witnesses. Brandt is the author of a novel based on major cases he solved through interrogation, The Right to Remain Silent. He is also the co-author of Joe Pistone's Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business and of Lin DeVecchio's We're Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-Up of a Mafia Crime Buster.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: “They Wouldn’t Dare”
Chapter Two: What It Is
Chapter Three: Get Yourself Another Punching Bag
Chapter Four: Little Egypt University
Chapter Five: 411 Days
Chapter Six: Doing What I Had to Do
Chapter Seven: Waking Up in America
Chapter Eight: Russell Bufalino
Chapter Nine: Prosciutto Bread and Homemade Wine
Chapter Ten: All the Way Downtown
Chapter Eleven: Jimmy
Chapter Twelve: “I Heard You Paint Houses”
Chapter Thirteen: They Didn’t Make a Parachute Big Enough
Chapter Fourteen: The Gunman Had No Mask
Chapter Fifteen: Respect with an Envelope
Chapter Sixteen: Give Them a Little Message
Chapter Seventeen: Nothing More Than a Mockery
Chapter Eighteen: Just Another Lawyer Now
Chapter Nineteen: Tampering with the Very Soul of the Nation
Chapter Twenty: Hoffa’s Comedy Troupe
Chapter Twenty-One: All He Did for Me Was to Hang Up
Chapter Twenty-Two: Pacing in His Cage
Chapter Twenty-Three: Nothing Comes Cheap
Chapter Twenty-Four: He Needed a Favor and That Was That
Chapter Twenty-Five: That Wasn’t Jimmy’s Way
Chapter Twenty-Six: All Hell Will Break Loose
Chapter Twenty-Seven: July 30, 1975
Chapter Twenty-Eight: To Paint a House
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Everybody Bleeds
Chapter Thirty: “Those Responsible Have Not Gotten Off Scot-Free”
Chapter Thirty-One: Under a Vow of Secrecy

Rezensionen

The book Brandt has written gives new meaning to the term 'guilty pleasure.' It promises to clear up the mystery of Hoffa's demise, and appears to do so. Sheeran not only admits he was in on the hit, he says it was he who actually pulled the trigger - and not just on Hoffa but on dozens of other victims, including many, he alleges, dispatched on Hoffa's orders. This last seems likely to spur a reappraisal of Hoffa's career. Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review