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Don't Talk About Joe Mac - The Life, Wars, Secret History of Man Behind Winter Hill Gang

English · Hardback

Will be released 22.01.2026

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Forget what you think you know about the Winter Hill Gang; this, at long last, is the ruthless truth of the Boston underworld and most ominous figure - his tragic origins, unsolved murders, and his daughter who broke the silence around him. In 2020, author Springs Toledo set out to find a ghost in the Boston underworld whose name can end a conversation - what he found is startling. Don''t Talk About Joe Mac is a true crime biography that reads like noir fiction. It is a journey through a shadow society as bizarre as it was impenetrable; an expose that will upend the official narrative animating United States v. James J. Bulger (2013) as it corrects the record and takes the top off a succession of unsolved murders. Joe McDonald (1917-1997), a World War II veteran and father of five, was the most revered career criminal in the region and its most prolific killer. He founded the Winter Hill Gang in the 1950s, became the bogeyman of the infamous Gangland War of the 1960s, and was among the FBI''s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives in the 1970s, and yet his name was barely mentioned and his exploits only whispers. His daughter, whose own unforgettable story is laced within his, brings us uncomfortably close to a personality marred by trauma. This is Joe Mac''s story, a story you were never supposed to know.

Product details

Authors Springs Toledo
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 22.01.2026
 
EAN 9798881842499
ISBN 9798881842499
No. of pages 296
Subjects Fiction > Suspense
Humanities, art, music > History

History: specific events & topics, True Crime, TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, Organized crime, History: specific events and topics, TRUE CRIME / Historical, True crime: serial killers and murderers

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