Even among the Mob the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs
- James Coonan & Mickey Featherstone
- the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York Citys West Side known as Hells Kitchen in the 1970s & 80s. Excelling in extortion numbers running loansharking & drug-peddling they became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime. The then prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani called them the most savage organisation in the long history of New York street gangs. Upping the ante on brutality & depravity their speciality when it came to punishment & killings was dismemberment. Their reign lasted almost twenty
- their end would come as their own violent natures got the best of them & precipitated a downfall as infamous as their rise. This revised & updated edition brings the story of the Westies up to date with where are they now snapshots of the men
- & women
- of the Westies.