Citizen Somerville

Citizen Somerville

In the early 1960â€™s a bloody civil war broke out between the two powerful Irish Mob families in the Somerville Massachusetts neighborhood known as Winter Hill. Over sixty men were murdered, including the leader of the Winter Hill Gang, James â€œBuddyâ€ McLean. The leadership of one of the most influential non-Italian crime organizations in the United States was inherited by his childhood friend, Howard T. â€œHowieâ€ Winter. In CITIZEN SOMERVILLE the events during his tenure offer a true picture of an era in Bostonâ€™s pre-Whitey Bulger history when the streets were protected by a close-knit group of Irish-Italian â€œbusinessmen.â€

The son of one of Winterâ€™s closest friends, BOBBY MARTINI has laid his own history bare to depict a life of survival in the rough streets of Somerville, stopping just short of entering the Mob life. The death of Martiniâ€™s two brothers as well as the murders and suicides of scores of others reveal the darker personal side of a small New England town.

CITIZEN SOMERVILLE slices a layer deeper than a crime memoir by allowing a usually ostracized faction to speak â€“ the women. After decades of silence, three strong and very different females lift the Mob veil and voice their own struggle to survive in Somervilleâ€™s criminal circle.

Often painfully poignant and yet frequently hilarious, CITIZEN SOMERVILLE is a microscopic view of a generation struggling to walk the moral tightrope between societal decency and the loyalty of criminality.
Country USA
Manufacturer Powder House Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2010-11-17
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Powder House Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2010-11-17
Format	Kindle eBook

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