Meet Bobby Martini & Elayne Keratsis, authors of the controversial new book CITIZEN SOMERVILLE: Growing Up With The Winter Hill Gang at Borders' Literary Arts and Music Festival
In the early 1960s a bloody war broke out between the two powerful Irish Mob families in the Somerville, MA neighborhood known as Winter Hill. Over sixty men were murdered, including the leader of the Winter Hill Gang, James "Buddy" McLean. Leadership of one of the most influential non-Italian crime organizations in the United States was inherited by his childhood friend, Howard T. "Howie" Winter.
The son of one of Winter's closest friends, Bobby Martini has laid his own history bare to depict a life of survival in the rough streets of Somerville and reveals the darker personal side of a small New England town. Often painfully poignant and yet frequently hilarious, Citizen Somerville is a microscopic view of a generation struggling to walk the moral tightrope between societal decency and the loyalty of criminality.
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Bobby Martini is a local author and Elayne Keratsis is the producer of the hit TV series Burn Notice.
Books will be available for purchase. For reviews of Citizen Somerville, click here.
