![]() ![]() ![]() He later published Born to Kill (1995), about a Vietnamese gang based in New York City's Chinatown, and Paddy Whacked (2005), a history of the Irish American gangster. Later, in the mid-1990s, English wrote a series of articles for Playboy magazine entitled "The New Mob", which explored the new face of organized crime. His writing for Irish America Magazine led to his first book, The Westies. In 1980, he moved to New York City and worked in series of odd jobs including bartender, janitor and taxi driver while working as a freelance journalist. His father was a steel worker and his mother a social worker for Catholic Charities. English was born in Tacoma, Washington and grew up in a large Irish Catholic family of ten children. The Westies operated primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, though the roots of the gang go all the way back to the Prohibition Era. ![]() His book, The Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob, first published in 1990, is the best-selling account of an Irish American gang in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. English (born 6 October 1957) is an Irish American author and journalist known primarily for his non-fiction books about differing aspects of organized crime, both contemporary and historical. ![]()
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