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Rights: World
978-1-903582-70-1 (13-digit)
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"His book is a portrait of two worlds: One where he devoted much of his criminal energies to supplying IRA fighters with an arsenal of weapons. And the other, where members of his Southie Mullen’s gang and later the Winter Hill crew operated with universal, albeit hidden contempt for [Whitey] Bulger.”
– Boston Herald

Boston mobster and convicted IRA gun-smuggler, Patrick ‘Kneecaps’ Nee was born in Rosmuc, Co Galway before his family emigrated to the tough streets of South Boston.

By 14 he was a seasoned criminal, and after a stint in the US Marines, went on to form an uneasy alliance with the infamous Whitey Bulger, for control of Southie’s criminal underworld.

In A Criminal & An Irishman Nee immerses you in his life as a career criminal. From armed robbery and extortion to revenge killings and a murderous gang war Nee tells all. But it was his other obsession – with the struggle for Irish freedom and the IRA - that led to a grand jury hearing and ultimately his downfall.

'If my recollections don’t match those in some other book by some other criminal, I don’t care. My memory is not perfect. This is my life as I remember it. And I’m comfortable with that.’