John “Red” Shea was a member of the Irish Mob in Boston in the 1980s and 1990s.
He was a senior figure in James “Whitey” Bulger’s South Boston crew, which grew from the Winter Hill Gang. Shea ran a cocaine distribution network around Boston and was arrested in 1990, serving 12 years in prison.
Shea is the author of ‘Rat Bastards: The South Boston Irish Mobster Who Took the Rap When Everyone Else Ran‘ and the novel ‘A Kid From Southie’.
He currently “works in construction” in Boston.
Red Shea’s book
https://www.amazon.com/Rat-Bastards-Boston-Mobster-Everyone/dp/0061232890
