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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffaby: Charles Brandt  List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364.1060973 EAN: 9781586420895 ISBN: 1586420895 Label: Steerforth Manufacturer: Steerforth Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: May 24, 2005 Publisher: Steerforth Release Date: May 24, 2005 Studio: Steerforth Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: "I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing 411 days of active combat duty in Italy during World War II. After returning home he became a hustler and hit man, working for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino. Eventually he would rise to a position of such prominence that in a RICO suit then-U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani would name him as one of only two non-Italians on a list of 26 top mob figures. When Bufalino ordered Sheeran to kill Hoffa, he did the deed, knowing that if he had refused he would have been killed himself. Sheeran's important and fascinating story includes new information on other famous murders, and provides rare insight to a chapter in American history. Charles Brandt has written a page-turner that is destined to become a true crime classic. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - moviemartin scorsese has begun production of movie for this book starring robert deniro as frank sheeran Rating: - Terrific and nostaligicSolves a mystery, and it's distant enough in time to be fascinating without seeming horrifying. It's basically a narrative confession, and it rings entirely true. Feels true. I was almost more fascinated by the flavors of the time, the cultural aspects of mob life in the "old days." Can you trust this account? Maybe not entirely, since at times the story seems so full of pride and bluster, and surely there's some exaggeration, but it does read like non-fiction, not fiction. Genuinely hard to put ... Read More Rating:  - Poor conditionReceived "I Heard You Paint Houses.." by Charles Brandt quickly enough however, the book was in very poor condition (ragged pages and food spots.) It was supposed to be "like new." I threw it out! Virginia Perry Rating:  - EVERYBODY BLEEDS... THE WAY I THINK IT WENT DOWN......Of course, this is just my opinion after reading Charles Brandt's book, but I have to say Brandt makes a compelling case for the unsolved mystery of Hoffa's dissapearence. "I Heard You Paint Houses," reads like a good detective story and creates a profile of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and his motive for killing Hoffa-- a leading suspect in his murder. The FBI could not get a deathbed confession out of "The Irishman," but Brandt comes close. The information is well researched, factual. ... Read More Rating:  - Evil personifiedNovember 22, 1963 was a defining moment for the Boomer generation and this book tells "the rest of the story" or at least more than I knew growing up in a sheltered Midwestern lifestyle. Autobiographical quotes of Frank Sheeran helped me to connect the dots between politics, unions and the mob families from WWII to the turn of the millennium. If you can stomach nonchalant murders, you may rate the book higher; you will find that Sheeran did not hesitate to paint "houses" and casually painted in towns ... Read More 
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