{"product_id":"the-irishman-movie-tiein-isbn-9781586422479","title":"The Irishman (Movie Tie-In)","description":"\u003cb\u003eORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS\u003ci\u003e I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow a major motion picture directed by Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award® nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award® winner Steven Zaillian. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Irishman\u003c\/i\u003e “gives new meaning to the term ‘guilty pleasure.’’’ \u003cb\u003e— Bryan Burrough, author of \u003ci\u003ePublic Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Told with such economy and chilling force as to make \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos\u003c\/i\u003e suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A terrific read.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes an Epilogue and a Conclusion that detail substantial post-publication corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killings of Jimmy Hoffa, Joey Gallo and JFK.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Irishman\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, Sheeran’s story chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and it offers a monumental journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, rivalries and connections to mainstream politics. Sheeran would rise to a position of such prominence that in a RICO suit against The Commission of La Cosa Nostra, the US Government would name him as one of only two non-Italians in conspiracy with the Commission. Sheeran is listed alongside the likes of Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano and Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and Brandt turned Sheeran’s story into a page-turning true crime classic.Chapter One: “They Wouldn’t Dare”\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: What It Is\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: Get Yourself Another Punching Bag\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Little Egypt University\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: 411 Days\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Doing What I Had to Do\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Waking Up in America\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: Russell Bufalino\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: Prosciutto Bread and Homemade Wine\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: All the Way Downtown\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: Jimmy\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve: “I Heard You Paint Houses”\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen: They Didn’t Make a Parachute Big Enough\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fourteen: The Gunman Had No Mask\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fifteen: Respect with an Envelope\u003cbr\u003eChapter Sixteen: Give Them a Little Message\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seventeen: Nothing More Than a Mockery\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eighteen: Just Another Lawyer Now\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nineteen: Tampering with the Very Soul of the Nation\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty: Hoffa’s Comedy Troupe\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-One: All He Did for Me Was to Hang Up\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Two: Pacing in His Cage\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Three: Nothing Comes Cheap\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Four: He Needed a Favor and That Was That\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Five: That Wasn’t Jimmy’s Way\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Six: All Hell Will Break Loose\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Seven: July 30, 1975\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Eight: To Paint a House\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twenty-Nine: Everybody Bleeds\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty: “Those Responsible Have Not Gotten Off Scot-Free”\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirty-One: Under a Vow of Secrecy\u003cb\u003e'The Irishman' named Best Film By National Board Of Review and New York Film Critics Circle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sheeran’s confession that he killed Hoffa in the manner described in the book is supported by the forensic evidence, is entirely credible, and solves the Hoffa mystery.”  \u003cb\u003e— Michael Baden M.D., former Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m fully convinced – now – that Sheeran was in fact the man who did the deed. And I’m impressed, too, by the book’s readability and by its factual accuracy in all areas on which I’m qualified to pass judgment. Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa mystery.” \u003cb\u003e—Professor Arthur Sloane, author of \u003ci\u003eHoffa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sometimes you can believe everything you read.” \u003cb\u003e— William “Big Billy” D’Elia, successor to Russell Bufalino as godfather of the Bufalino crime family\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“My source in the Bufalino family . . . read \u003ci\u003eI Heard You Paint Houses\u003c\/i\u003e. All the Bufalino guys read it. This old-time Bufalino guy told me he was shocked. He couldn’t believe Sheeran confessed all that stuff to [Brandt]. It’s all true.” \u003cb\u003e— New York Police Department organized crime homicide detective Joseph Coffey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If the made men Brandt rubbed up against during his five years with Sheeran suspected what Sheeran was confessing to him on tape, they’d both have been promptly whacked.” \u003cb\u003e— Joe Pistone, retired FBI deep undercover agent and the author of \u003ci\u003eDonnie Brasco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Heard You Paint Houses \u003c\/i\u003e“gives new meaning to the term ‘guilty pleasure.’ It promises to clear up the mystery of Hoffa’s demise, and appears to do so. Sheeran not only admits he was in on the hit, he says it was he who actually pulled the trigger — and not just on Hoffa but on dozens of other victims, including many, he alleges, dispatched on Hoffa’s orders. This last seems likely to spur a reappraisal of Hoffa’s career. . . . Sheeran is Old School, and his tale is admirably free of self-pity and self-aggrandize­ment. Without getting all Oprah about it, he admits he was an alcoholic and a lousy father. His business was killing people, and . . . he did it with little muss, fuss or introspection.’’ \u003cb\u003e— Bryan Burrough, author of \u003ci\u003ePublic Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of Sheeran’s virtues was his gift as a storyteller; one of his flaws was his tendency to murder, in mobster jargon, ‘to paint houses.’ . . . Although he professed his loyalty to Hoffa – he said on one occasion, ‘I’ll be a Hoffa man ‘til they pat my face with a shovel and steal my cufflinks’ − Sheeran acknowledged that he was the one who killed the Teamsters boss. . . . On July 30, 1975, Hoffa disappeared. Sheeran explains how he did it, in prose reminiscent of the best gangster films.” \u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e— Associated Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eI Heard You Paint Houses \u003c\/i\u003eis the best Mafia book I ever read, and believe me, I read them all. It’s so authentic.” \u003cb\u003e— Steven Van Zandt, featured actor, “Silvio Dante,” in \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos \u003c\/i\u003eand musician in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Is Sheeran believable? Very . . . and ‘\u003ci\u003eI Heard You Paint Houses\u003c\/i\u003e’ is a very enjoyable book.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTrial Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A page-turning account of one man’s descent into the mob.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDelaware News Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A terrific read.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBorn and raised in New York City, Charles Brandt is a former junior high school English teacher, welfare investigator in East Harlem, homicide prosecutor, and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. In private practice since 1976, Brandt has been president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and the Delaware Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been named by his peers to both Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in Delaware. He is a frequent speaker on cross-examination and interrogation techniques for reluctant witnesses. Brandt is the author of a novel based on major cases he solved through interrogation, \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Remain Silent\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the co-author of Joe Pistone's \u003ci\u003eDonnie Brasco: Unfinished Business\u003c\/i\u003e and of Lin DeVecchio's \u003ci\u003eWe're Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-Up of a Mafia Crime Buster\u003c\/i\u003e.Originally published as I Heard You Paint Houses","brand":"Steerforth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305246871781,"sku":"NP9781586422479","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781586422479.jpg?v=1767739982","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-irishman-movie-tiein-isbn-9781586422479","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}