Slaughter in the Streets - (Hamilcar Noir) by Don Stradley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>In <i>Slaughter in the Streets</i>, Don Stradley masterfully unfolds the story of how Boston became "boxing's murder capital." From the early days of Boston's Mafia, to the era of Whitey Bulger, Stradley tells the fascinating stories of men who were drawn to the dual shady worlds of boxing and the mob.</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"[A] gritty, true-crime narrative...with hard-edged prose and a total absence of cheap moralizing...[A] stark and gripping account."<b>--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b></p><p>"The historical fact that the city of Boston has seen more than its share of this breed - boxers who became intertwined with the criminal underworld - is the literary gold that author Don Stradley mines so beautifully in this book. There are moments of triumph in the ring, and some failures; Stradley is right to focus as much on the boxing careers (often misbegotten) of these men as well as their criminal associations and habits."--<b>T.J. English</b>, from the Foreword</p><p>From the pages of <i>Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing's Murder Capital</i>...</p><p><i>Frankie spent the final seconds of his life the way James Cagney might've in an old Warner Bros crime drama: he stumbled down the hallway and into the office of an attorney who had leased space in the building. A female stenographer who had been at her desk filling out Christmas cards looked on in horror; the sound of guns a moment earlier had shattered the holiday mood, and now she was confronted by the sight of Frankie in the doorway, blood gushing from his wounds. Without saying a word, he walked in and sat in a chair. Then he pitched forward, dead.</i></p><p>In <i>Slaughter in the Streets</i>, Don Stradley masterfully unfolds the story of how Boston became "boxing's murder capital." From the early days of Boston's Mafia, to the era of Whitey Bulger, Stradley tells the fascinating stories of men who were drawn to the dual shady worlds of boxing and organized crime.</p><p>Boston was once a thriving boxing city. And it was also host to an ever-expanding underworld. From the early days of Boston's Mafia, to the era of Whitey Bulger, many of the city's boxers found themselves drawn to the criminal life. Most of them ended up dead. <i>Slaughter in the Streets</i> tells the violent and often tragic story of these misguided young men who thought their toughness in the ring could protect them from the most cold-blooded killers in the country.</p><p><i>Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing's Murder Capital</i> is the third in the <b>Hamilcar Noir</b> series. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels. <p/><b>Perfect Gift For Boxing and True Crime Fans!</b> <p/><i>Slaughter in the Streets</i>, combined with other books in the Hamilcar Noir series, makes a great gift for fans of stories about the darker side of boxing. Books in the Hamilcar Noir series also make for a great gift idea for true crime fans--whether they are a die-hard boxing fan or not, they will devour these quick reads and ask for more!</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Explore[s] boxing's seedy underside by presenting readers with a gallery of biographical portraits from a period in Boston history when the sport and mob violence were frequently linked. Delivering staccato and cinematic details, the author looks at the 20th-century thugs, waterfront rats, and promising local youths whose lives became entangled with the gangsters, sharklike cops, and backroom politicians who created and sustained the old world of Boston ward politics. In economical passages, Stradley shows how surprisingly often the thread connecting all these men was boxing...[A] gritty, true-crime narrative...with hard-edged prose and a total absence of cheap moralizing...[A] stark and gripping account."<b>--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> <p/>"[A] book that stands at the intersection of boxing and murder. These are the true-crime stories of men in Boston in the first half of the 20th century who dreamed of being great fighters but couldn't make it past the fringe of the sport, and in their desperation chose criminal plots, resulting in grim ends. Boston itself, morphing into something new, in part by the violent actions of these boxer criminals, is a key feature of the book, which demonstrates that the confluence of boxing, poverty, crime, and the urban landscape is not the realm of fiction alone."<b>--<i>Crime Reads</i>, "The Classics of Boxing Literature"</b> <p/>"In a juicy mix of mayhem and pathos, Don Stradley writes movingly about the unusually high number of Boston boxers who found themselves on the wrong side of the law, usually with fatal consequences. Stradley weaves together details with dark humor but threads his narrative with compassion for the men who fought hard for our entertainment and were defeated by life. If you want to read about the Boston That Was, this is a captivating narrative of the past."<b>--Stephanie Schorow, author of <i>Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood</i></b> <p/>"The word 'beautiful' may sound odd when describing a murderous volume in which men are shot, stabbed, strangled, and beaten to death with pipes and lead sashes, but Stradley so economically describes the lives of these men that [best-selling author T.J. English] is right, it is beautiful."<b>--George Hassett, <i>Dig Boston</i></b></p><br>
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