Paddy Whacked vs The Westies: Which Should You Read?

Paddy Whacked T. J. English · 2005 ★★★★☆ 4.1 480 pages · ≈ 8 h 53 m · Moderate

“Who would have guessed that in the early years of the twenty-first century-in an era of rampant jihadism and global paranoia-the highest ranking organized crime figure on the Federal Bureau of investigation's (FBI) Ten most Wanted List was neither a Mafia don nor a Latin American narcotraficante nor a Russian mafiya, but rather an old-style Irish American mob boss from around the way?”

Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned…

The Westies T. J. English · 1990 ★★★★☆ 4.4 400 pages · ≈ 7 h 24 m · Moderate

“The victim never really had a chance.”

Published in the UK for the first time in 2008.