I Heard You Paint Houses
by Charles Brandtliterary work· published 2004
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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. According to Sheeran, the title is the beginning of the first telephone conversation between him and labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, and was spoken by the latter. "Painting houses" is a mob code for carrying out contract killings, with the "paint" being the victim's blood that spatters on the walls from the gunshot. Sheeran replied that he also did his own "carpentry," meaning that he disposed of the bodies.
Adaptations (1)
I Heard You Paint Houses was adapted into a 2019 film.
The Irishman2019 · film · 209 min · dir. Martin Scorsese · IMDb ↗Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
