I Heard You Paint Houses - Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

Charles Brandt

Steerforth

2005

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-10: 1586420895

The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." 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.

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Mais um livro na interminável bibliografia de quem matou Jimmy Hoffa - um sindicalista estadunidense assassinado em fins do século XX que é basicamente a versão gringa de Quem matou Xico Mendes?

Ambos eram forças políticas, igualmente envolvidos com grupos excusos e mortos de maneira não-tão misteriosa, mas que ainda rende ibope quando mencionados. Embora, com a geração Z, é possível que só sejam lembrados se forem mencionados em alguma dancinha de tiktok. E sim, essa é a minha forma de marcar essa resenha para situá-la culturalmente daqui uns vinte anos.

Como literatura, é interessante ler sobre a vida de Frank Sheeran, o assassino da máfia que afirma ter sido o autor do crime. Fora isso, não há muito a se dizer em termos de embasamento ou conjuntura histórica.

Fica como curiosidade.