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A shocking and intimate portrait of perhaps the most violent Irish American gang ever, The Westies is now considered a true crime classic. The story of Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, and how their partnership with the Gambino Crime Family led eventually to their demise, is the proverbial gangland page-turner. The book has remained in print since the day it was first published in 1990, and has been passed on from generation to generation. It now stands as an essential book to read not only on the subject of gangster history, but on the subject of the Irish American experience in New York City.