Charles Brandt

I Heard You Paint Houses

Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

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Produktbeschreibung

The inspiration for the major motion picture, THE IRISHMAN, 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. "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 "Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa mystery." -Professor Arthur Sloane, author of Hoffa "It's all true." - New York Police Department organized crime homicide detective Joseph Coffey Includes an Epilogue and a Conclusion that detail substantial post-publication corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killings of Jimmy Hoffa, Joey Gallo and JFK. "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. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Draft2digital
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781586422387
• ISBN-10: 1586422383
• Artikelnr.: 45115682

Autorenporträt

Born and raised in New York City, Charles Brandt is a former homicide prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. As a prosecutor, he handled more than 50 homicide proceedings, and he is the author of a novel based on cases he solved through interrogation, The Right to Remain Silent. In private practice since 1976, Brandt was a criminal defense attorney specializing in homicide for a decade, and 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 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