When the hardback edition of I Heard You Paint Houses first came out in 2004, Ed Barnes, a Fox News producer and former organized crime investigator for the state of New York, a man who for over twenty years kept two files from his Strike Force days, one labeled Frank Sheeran and the other labeled Russell Bufalino, and who gave me my first copy of the Hoffex memo, flew to Las Vegas. Ed Barnes waited all day in the desert sun in front of Tommy Andretta’s orange-roofed white suburban house. When 6’6” Andretta arrived home, Barnes tried to hand him the book and to ask him questions, but Andretta
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