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John "Red" Shea

Born

in Boston, The United States

August 12, 1965

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs

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John "Red" Shea, 40, was a top lieutenant in the South Boston Irish mob run, led by James "Whitey" Bulger. An ice–cold enforcer with a red–hot temper, Shea was a legend among his peers in the 1990s South Boston, as much as John Gotti, Bugsy Siegel, and Al Capone were in their time and place.

From the age of thirteen, when he started robbing delivery trucks, to the age of twenty–seven, when he began serving a twelve–year federal sentence for drug trafficking, Shea was a portrait in American crime – a bantam–weight, red–headed terror, brutal with his fists and deadly with a lead pipe, a baseball bat, or a knife. At fifteen he was selling marijuana . At seventeen he was handling Bulger's cocaine. At eighteen he was loan sharking and laundering ...more

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	Rat Bastards: The South Boston Irish Mobster Who Took the Rap When Everyone Else Ran by John "Red" Shea, Mark Wahlberg (Introduction) 3.54 avg rating — 604 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Kid from Southie by John "Red" Shea, Michael Harmon (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rat Bastards 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kid From Southie, A by John "Red" Shea Michael Harmon, John "Red" Shea, P.J. Marino (Reading) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Or else. When I was late for dinner, she’d chase me down the street, screaming at me, yelling at me, grabbing me by the hair and dragging me up the street because I wasn’t on time. But that was the era. They were all like that, the parents. That’s how they grew up, that’s how they were taught. She’d use belts, a broom, a spatula. Amazing the household items that could become enforcers.”
― John "Red" Shea, Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster, A Memoir

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“Whitey said, ‘Most guys are trying to break out of jail, but that kid’s trying to break in.”
― John "Red" Shea, Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster, A Memoir

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