The Irishman (Movie Tie-In): Frank Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSESNew York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture directed by Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award® nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award® winner Steven Zaillian. The Irishman "gives new meaning to the term 'guilty pleasure.''' - Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review "Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical." -New York Daily News "A terrific read." -Kansas City Star The Irishman is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, Sheeran's story chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and it offers a monumental journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, rivalries and connections to mainstream politics. Sheeran would rise to a position of such prominence that in a RICO suit against The Commission of La Cosa Nostra, the US Government would name him as one of only two non-Italians in conspiracy with the Commission. Sheeran is listed alongside the likes of Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano and Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno.In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and Brandt turned Sheeran's story into a page-turning true crime classic.

Chapter One: “They Wouldn’t Dare”Chapter Two: What It IsChapter Three: Get Yourself Another Punching BagChapter Four: Little Egypt UniversityChapter Five: 411 DaysChapter Six: Doing What I Had to DoChapter Seven: Waking Up in AmericaChapter Eight: Russell BufalinoChapter Nine: Prosciutto Bread and Homemade WineChapter Ten: All the Way DowntownChapter Eleven: JimmyChapter Twelve: “I Heard You Paint Houses”Chapter Thirteen: They Didn’t Make a Parachute Big EnoughChapter Fourteen: The Gunman Had No MaskChapter Fifteen: Respect with an EnvelopeChapter Sixteen: Give Them a Little MessageChapter Seventeen: Nothing More Than a MockeryChapter Eighteen: Just Another Lawyer NowChapter Nineteen: Tampering with the Very Soul of the NationChapter Twenty: Hoffa’s Comedy TroupeChapter Twenty-One: All He Did for Me Was to Hang UpChapter Twenty-Two: Pacing in His CageChapter Twenty-Three: Nothing Comes CheapChapter Twenty-Four: He Needed a Favor and That Was ThatChapter Twenty-Five: That Wasn’t Jimmy’s WayChapter Twenty-Six: All Hell Will Break LooseChapter Twenty-Seven: July 30, 1975Chapter Twenty-Eight: To Paint a HouseChapter Twenty-Nine: Everybody BleedsChapter Thirty: “Those Responsible Have Not Gotten Off Scot-Free”Chapter Thirty-One: Under a Vow of Secrecy