I Heard You Paint Houses

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa is a 2004 work of narrative nonfiction written by former homicide prosecutor, investigator and defense attorney Charles Brandt that chronicles the life of Frank Sheeran, an alleged mafia hitman who confesses the crimes he committed working for the Bufalino crime family.

This article is about the book published in 2004. For the film based on the book, see The Irishman.

I Heard You Paint Houses
AuthorCharles Brandt
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Subject
Genre
PublisherSteerforth Press
Publication date
2004
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback), E-book, audio cassette, audio CD, Audible Audio Edition, Amazon Kindle
Pages384
ISBN978-1586422387
364.1'06'0973—dc22
LC ClassHV6446.B73 2004

The book contains 71 pages of back matter largely detailing independent corroboration of Sheeran's confessions that came to light after the book was first published. The book is the basis for the 2019 film The Irishman, which was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran.[1]

Sheeran's supposed confessions to killing Jimmy Hoffa and Joe Gallo have been disputed by "The Lies of the Irishman", an article in Slate by Bill Tonelli,[2] and "Jimmy Hoffa and 'The Irishman': A True Crime Story?" by Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith, which appeared in The New York Review of Books.[3] Chip Fleischer, the book's publisher, wrote a detailed reply to Tonelli's piece, calling it "irresponsible in the extreme, not to mention damaging," which Slate also published.[4] The title is in reference to, according to Sheeran, the first conversation he had with Hoffa over the phone, where Hoffa started by saying, "I heard you paint houses"—a mob code meaning: I heard you kill people, the "paint" being the blood that splatters when bullets are fired into a body.[2]

References
  1. Bell, Breanna (July 31, 2019). "Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman' Trailer Teams Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci". Variety. Archived from the original on July 31, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  2. Tonelli, Bill (August 7, 2019). "The Lies of "The Irishman"". Slate. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  3. Goldsmith, Jack (September 26, 2019). "Jimmy Hoffa and The Irishman: A True Crime Story?". New York Review of Books. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  4. "The Publisher of I Heard You Paint Houses Responds to "The Lies of the Irishman"". August 16, 2019. Retrieved December 2, 2019.


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