Thieves of Charlestown: The Shocking History of Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood

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Joe Bradley

Thieves of Charlestown

The Shocking History of Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood

Joe Bradley

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Hamilcar Publications
07 October 2025

Biography: historical, political & military; History of the Americas; Organised crime

According to the FBI, morebank and armored-car robbers have come out of Charlestown, Massachusetts, thanany other one-square-mile area in the world. With these robberies also camegangland violence and corruption. Fictionalized in the movie The Town featuringBen Affleck and Jeremy Renner, this is the true story of Charlestown andthe thieves and gangsters who terrorized the community for decades.

On October 31, 1961,Bernie McLaughlin got shot dead in broad daylight in front of a hundredwitnesses in the City Square section of Charlestown. Because of the ironclad code of silence in the Irish stronghold known as the ""Green SquareMile,"" no witnesses came forward. The murder ignited a bloody war between theMcLaughlin Gang and Buddy McClean's Winter Hill Gang that left more than sixty mendead.

Three decades later, asnarcotics invaded Charlestown, and a concurrent Mob war raged between J. R.

Russo's North End crew and that of Patriarca-family boss ""Cadillac Frank"" Salemme,five thieves called the ""No Name Gang"" committed over a hundred heists acrossNew England that cemented the enclave's infamy. Grippingly cinematic and raw, Thievesof Charlestown delivers an unprecedented look at the real criminals who ruledthe streets of ""The Town.""

By: Joe Bradley
Imprint: Hamilcar Publications
Country of Publication: United States
ISBN: 9781949590890
ISBN 10: 1949590895
Publication Date: 07 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joe Bradley is a former gang-unit cop in Springfield, Massachusetts, with a Master's degree in criminal justice. He lives in Connecticut with his family.