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The Secret Seven: The Day the Rat Broke the Code
Three of the Secret Seven – Jimmy “Elmer” DeSanto, Billy “BJ” DeSanto, and Tim “Murph the Surf” Murphy on the…
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I'm Tim "Murph the Surf" Murphy. I wasn't a Godfather. I wasn't a Made Man. I was "The Kid."
I was the one in the corner, keeping my mouth shut. I was the one driving the 19-foot 1970 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham ("Lucerne Aqua Fire Mist") ferrying the last of the Rust Belt gangsters across state lines.
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In the dying days of the American Mob, there was a "neutral zone": Erie, Pennsylvania. It sat about 100 miles from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo. It was a sanctuary city for thieves, hitmen, and safecrackers who needed to vanish.
It was here that The Secret Seven operated. A crew so secret, we used to say we didn't know who the other six were. One Man Crime Spree is the raw, unfiltered memoir of "The Kid" who drove the getaway cars, punched the safes, and survived the crash that killed the era of the Goodfellas.
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I am Tim "Murph the Surf" Murphy. I was "The Kid." The driver. The one who sat in the corner, kept his mouth shut, and learned from the masters.
This isn't just a story about crime. It's a story about the Rust Belt underworld of Erie and Buffalo, the high cost of the fast life, and how I crawled out of the wreckage to build a new life.
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One Man Crime Spree by Tim "Murph the Surf" Murphy is a gripping and unapologetic dive into the life of one of the most infamous figures in true-crime history.
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