Venus and Adonis (1593)

Martin Scorsese’s The Departed barely touched his story, but radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano. For two decades, Martorano struck fear into anyone remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty murders, for which Johnny only served twelve years in prison. Carr also looks at the politicians and FBI agents who aided Johnny and Whitey and at the city of Boston, which they so ruthlessly ruled. But most of all, Carr depicts Johnny–the most fascinating crime figure Carr has ever encountered. A plethora of paradoxes, he was Mr. Mom by day and man-about-town by night. Charismatically colorful, he was as charming as he was frightening. After all, he was, in the end, a hitman.