New York Times Bestseller -- #1 True Crime Bestseller
The inspiration for the major motion picture, THE
IRISHMAN.
"The best Mafia book I ever read, and believe me, I read them
all." -- Steven Van Zandt
"Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa mystery." -- Professor Arthur
Sloane, author of Hoffa
"Sheeran's confession that he killed Hoffa in the manner described
in the book is supported by the forensic evidence, is entirely credible,
and solves the Hoffa mystery." -- Michael Baden M.D., former Chief
Medical Examiner of the City of New York
"It's all true." -- New York Police Department organized crime
homicide detective Joe Coffey
"Gives new meaning to the term 'guilty pleasure.''' -- The New
York Times Book Review
**Includes an Epilogue and a Conclusion that detail substantial
post-publication corroboration of Frank Sheeran's confessions to the
killings of Jimmy Hoffa and Joey Gallo.
I heard you paint houses are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to
Frank the Irishman Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint
is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of
nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to
Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob,
and for his friend Hoffa. He also provided intriguing information about
the Mafia's role in the murder of JFK.
Sheeran learned to kill in the US Army, where he saw an astonishing 411
days of active combat duty in Italy during World War II. After returning
home he became a hustler and hit man, working for legendary crime boss
Russell Bufalino. Eventually Sheeran would rise to a position of such
prominence that in a RICO suit the US government would name him as one
of only two non-Italians in conspiracy with the Commission of La Cosa
Nostra, alongside the likes of Anthony Tony Pro Provenzano and Anthony
Fat Tony Salerno.
When Bufalino ordered Sheeran to kill Hoffa, the Irishman did the deed,
knowing that if he had refused he would have been killed himself.
Charles Brandt's page-turner has become a true crime classic.
