About the Author

Mark Silverman was an outsider from Medford, Massachusetts, who grew up in the shadow of Whitey Bulger, Howie Winter, Raymond Patriarca and Jerry Anguilo, bosses of Bostons most infamous crime families. Silverman got inside the Boston mob and became an integral part of the ensuing citys gang war of the 1990s. Scott Scott M. Deitche (St. Petersburg, FL) is the author of Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld and The Silent Don: The Criminal World of Santo Trafficante Jr. For his expertise on organized crime, he has appeared on the Discovery Channel; the History Channel; local NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox affiliates; local and national radio programs; and has written for newspapers, newspapers, magazines, and the Web.