Animal
Authors: Casey Sherman
Tags: #Biographies & Memoirs, #Specific Groups, #Crime & Criminals, #True Crime, #Organized Crime, #Criminals, #True Accounts
CASEY SHERMAN
ANIMAL
The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob’s Most Feared Assassin
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
BOSTON
Northeastern University Press An imprint of University Press of New England
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sherman, Casey, 1969– Animal: the bloody rise and fall of the mob’s most feared assassin / Casey Sherman.
pages cm Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-55553-822-4 (hbk.: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-55553-821-7 (ebk.) 1. Barboza, Joseph, 1932–1976. 2. Assassins—United States— Biography. 3. Organized crime—United States—History. I. Title.
HV6248.b293s54 2013
364.152'4092—dc23
[B] 2012049987
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CONTENTS
Casualties of the Boston Mob War, 1961–1967
Prologue
1Thacher Island—September 1967
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