- Teamsters, Gangsters, Mafia, Hoffa, james r. (james riddle), 1913-1975?
"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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Brandt
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Hodder & Stoughton, Steerforth Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780340919309
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“I asked my boss, Russell "McGee" Bufalino, to let me call Jimmy at his cottage by the lake.”
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