Boston Mob: The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer

Journalist Marc Songini presents the brutal and bloody history of Boston’s organized crime syndicates in the 1960s and 70s through the life of gangster Joseph Barboza.

The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. And psychopathic strongman Joseph “The Animal” Barboza was one of the most feared mob enforcers of all time, killin...