T. J. English

T. J. English is an Irish American author and journalist known primarily for his non-fiction books about differing aspects of organized crime, both contemporary and historical. His book, The Westies: Inside the Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob, first published in 1990, is the best-selling account of an Irish American gang in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. The Westies operated primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, though the roots of the gang go all the way back to the Prohibition Era. T.