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It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute push to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose recollections of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Jointly they make brutality their brand, butchering body or hurling them out the screen. Under their reign, Hell's Kitchen becomes a place where death actually rains from the sky. However when Mickey goes down for a murder he didn't commit, he suspects his friend has sold him away. He profits the favor, breaking the underworld's code of silence and testifying against his gang in open up court. From one of the freelance writers behind NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street comes an incredible true storyline of what this means to survive in the world of organized criminal offenses, where murder is commonplace.
