<div>The &ldquo;riveting&rdquo; true story of the Vietnamese gang that terrorized Manhattan&rsquo;s Chinatown, from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Westies (Newsday). They are children of the Vietnam War. Born and raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm, these young men know a particular brand of cruelty&mdash;which they are about to export to the United States. When the Vietnamese gangs come to Chinatown, they adopt a name remembered from GI&rsquo;s helmets: &ldquo;Born to Kill.&rdquo; And kill they do, in a frenzy of violence that shocks even the old-school Chinese gangsters who once ran Canal Street. Killing brings them turf, money, and power, but also draws the government&rsquo;s eye. Even as Born to Kill reaches its height, it is marked for destruction. This story is told from the perspective of Tinh Ngo, a young gang member who eventually grows disenchanted with murder and death. When he decides to inform on his brothers to the police, he enters a shadow world far more dangerous than any gangland.</div>

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Born to Kill

<div>Sixteen stories of true crime from America&rsquo;s foremost authority on the underworld James &ldquo;Whitey&rdquo; Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath&mdash;who also happened to be a secret FBI informant&mdash;his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than twenty years. When he went on the lam in 1995, the kingpin&rsquo;s legend grew to rival that of Al Capone. Captured after sixteen years in hiding, he now sits in a maximum security prison awaiting trial on racketeering charges and nineteen counts of murder. T. J. English has been writing about men like Bulger for more than two decades. And this collection, culled from his career in journalism and supported by new material, shows English at his best. In addition to the numerous pieces about Whitey, he reports stories about gangsters and organized crime from New York City to Jamaica to Hong Kong and Mexico. Be they about old school mobsters, corrupt federal agents, or modern-day narcotraficantes wreaking havoc on the US&ndash;Mexico border, English tells these stories with depth and insight. Combining first-rate reporting and the storytelling technique of a novelist, English takes his readers on a bloody but fascinating journey to the dark side of the American Dream.</div>

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Whitey's Payback

<div>From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: A true story of Irish gangsters in Manhattan&mdash;&ldquo;A harrowing account of big city crime&rdquo; (Library Journal). It&rsquo;s men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell&rsquo;s Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York&rsquo;s Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window. Under their reign, Hell&rsquo;s Kitchen becomes a place where death literally rains from the sky. But when Mickey goes down for a murder he didn&rsquo;t commit, he suspects his friend has sold him out. He returns the favor, breaking the underworld&rsquo;s code of silence and testifying against his gang in open court. From one of the creators of NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street comes an incredible true story of what it means to survive in the world of organized crime, where murder is commonplace.</div>

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<div>Enter a world where money, muscle, and murder reign with three true crime books from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author and Edgar Award finalist. Whitey&rsquo;s Payback: In this collection of sixteen stories culled from his journalism career, author T. J. English reveals the violent world of crime with in-depth pieces on everything from old-school mobsters to corrupt federal agents&mdash;including the most feared gangster in Boston history (and secret FBI informant), James &ldquo;Whitey&rdquo; Bulger, who vanished for sixteen years before finally being brought to justice. &ldquo;Hard-hitting reporting.&rdquo; &mdash;Anthony Bruno, author of The Iceman The Westies: They were the gang even the Mafia thought twice about fighting&mdash;a gang of young, wild Irishmen led by cold-blooded Jimmy Coonan and his loyal gunman Mickey Featherstone who ruled Hell&rsquo;s Kitchen with a bloody fist. Their savagery gave them power, but their quick rise would eventually lead to betrayal and their ultimate downfall in this tale of vengeance, ambition, and the last of the Irish Mob in New York. &ldquo;A harrowing account of big city crime.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal Born to Kill: This Edgar Award finalist chronicles the rise and fall of the infamous Born to Kill gang, a group of young Vietnamese men raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm who came to New York&rsquo;s Chinatown to make a new life, but instead brought death in their wake. Told from the perspective of one gang member who wanted more than a life of bloodshed and testified against his brethren, Born to Kill is a shocking account of the American Dream gone nightmarishly wrong. &ldquo;Hard-hitting . . .torrid and fascinating.&rdquo; &mdash;The Austin Chronicle</div>

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Books By T. J. English (4 Books)

Born to Kill

Whitey's Payback

The Westies

American Gangsters

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