The Devil to Pay
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The Devil to Pay

A Mobster's Road to Perdition

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The Devil to Pay

A Mobster's Road to Perdition

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Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man's unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption.

Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles—known to law enforcement officials as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried—because they'd done the burying—but they also looked out for young Sean. Even the notorious gangster known worldwide as Whitey Bulger was simply "Uncle Jim" to him.

After such an upbringing, a life of crime was a given. In this unprecedented memoir, Hicks talks about everything from his experience running illegal goods up and down the coast of Massachusetts to his theory about what really happened the night three hundred million dollars' worth of art went missing from Boston's Isabella Gardner Museum. Terms like money laundering and assault insufficiently describe his daily tasks, a brash existence that alternated with stints behind bars. This knuckles-close look at mobster life chronicles the greed and avarice, tenderness and brutality, and the reckoning all gangsters must eventually face.

Hicks tells a story of blood and vengeance but also—surprisingly—of hope. The Devil to Pay: A Mobster's Road to Perdition is an extraordinary memoir that illuminates the reality of what it's really like in the dark, dangerous, and insidious places of the world, and what it takes to bring a person there and back again.

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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Year
2024
ISBN
9798874797416
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Subscribe
  3. Praise for The Devil to Pay
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Disclaimer
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Prologue
  10. 1. Redheaded Bastard
  11. 2. The Family Business
  12. 3. The Whale
  13. 4. Learning the Game
  14. 5. Running the Rackets
  15. 6. Consequences
  16. 7. Green Eggs and Ham
  17. 8. Becoming a Monster
  18. 9. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
  19. 10. Ghost
  20. 11. On the Lam
  21. 12. Model Inmate
  22. 13. Quinn
  23. 14. Seed Money
  24. 15. The Bank Job
  25. 16. South Boston Shoot-out
  26. 17. Rock Bottom
  27. 18. Back From the Dead
  28. Author’s Note
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Notes
  31. About the Author
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