Mortal Friends Pa
James Carroll. Beacon Press (MA), $17 (607pp) ISBN 978-0-8070-6339-2
Fact and fiction intertwine in this tragic tale of Irish revolutionary and Boston mobster Colman Brady. (Apr.)
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Reviewed on: 03/02/1992
Genre: Fiction
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