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Contact: Emily Sweeney| emily.sweeney@globe.com| 617-967-7561

GANGLAND BOSTON:
A Tour through the Deadly
Streets of Organized Crime
By Emily Sweeney

Lyons Press is proud to announce the release of Gangland

Boston: A Tour through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime
(978-1-4930-3036-1, $18.95, Paperback) by Emily Sweeney.

Welcome to Boston’s criminal underworld…

A GUIDED TOUR OF BOSTON’S UNDERWORLD, REVEALING THE PLACES WHERE DEALS WERE
MADE, PEOPLE WERE KILLED, AND BODIES WERE BURIED

Gangsters have played a shady role in shaping Greater Boston’s history. While lurking in local
restaurants or just around the corner inside that inconspicuous building, countless criminals
have quietly made their mark on the city and surrounding communities. Packed with photos,
Gangland Boston reveals the hidden history of these places, bringing readers back in time to
when the North End was wrought with gun violence, Hanover Street was known as a “shooting
gallery,” and guys named King Solomon, Beano Breen, and Mickey the Wiseguy ruled the
underworld.

Drawing upon years of research and an extensive collection of rare photographs, author Emily
Sweeney sheds light on how gang violence unfolded during Prohibition, how the Italian mafia
rose to power, and how the Gustin Gang came to be. She also uncovers little-known facts about
well-known crime figures (Did you know the leader of the Gustin Gang was an Olympic athlete?
Or that a fellowship at a major university was named after a big-time bookie?)
From South Boston to Somerville, Chinatown to Charlestown, and every neighborhood in
between, readers will get to know mobsters in ways they never have before.

Readers will find out:

* Exact addresses where mobsters lived, worked, and played around Greater Boston
* How an Olympic athlete became one of Boston’s most notorious gangsters
* The untold history of the Gustin Gang
* Frank Sinatra’s connection to a long-forgotten Massachusetts racetrack

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* Little-known facts about David “Beano” Breen, Charles “King” Solomon, Harry “Doc”
Sagansky, Raymond L.S. Patriarca, and other legendary crime figures

EMILY SWEENEY has written for the Boston Globe since 2001. A proud native of Dorchester,
she’s the author of Boston Organized Crime and she appeared in Stranger Than Fiction: The
True Story of Whitey Bulger, Southie, and The Departed, a documentary film that is featured on
the DVD of the Oscar-winning movie The Departed. Visit her website at
www.bostonorganizedcrime.com.

Lyons Press authors include some of the foremost experts writing about American and military
history, sports, hunting, fishing, nature and pets. We’re proud to have published early work by
mountaineer Jon Krakauer and naturalist Rick Bass, as well as recent best-sellers by National
Book Award finalist Domingo Martinez and Big Ten Network host Dave Revsine.

Gangland Boston: A Tour through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime

978-1-4930-3036-1• Paperback • $18.95 • Pages: 288 • Size: 6 x 9

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