The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob Author: T. J. English
	Book Information Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Book Type: Paperback Rating: 18 ISBN-13: 9780312924294 - ISBN-10: 0312924291 Publication Date: 3/15/1991 Pages: 416 Book Reviews

Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs, James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell's Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City's West Side. They became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime, excelling in extortion, numbers running, loansharking, and drug peddling. Upping the ante on depravity, their specialty was execution by dismemberment. Though never numbering more than a dozen members, their reign lasted for almost twenty years-until their own violent natures got the best of them, precipitating a downfall that would become as infamous as their notorious ascension into the annals of crime.