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America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice
W. W. Norton & Company
February 2013
On Sale: February 11, 2013
496 pages
ISBN: 0393087727
EAN: 9780393087727
Kindle: B00B0WHTJW
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This unforgettable narrative follows the astonishing
career and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger—a gangster whose
life was more sensational than fiction. Raised in a South Boston housing project, James "Whitey"
Bulger became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In
this riveting story, rich with family ties and intrigue,
award-winning Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and
Shelley Murphy follow Whitey’s extraordinary criminal
career—from teenage thievery to bank robberies to the
building of his underworld empire and a string of brutal
murders. It was after a nine-year stint in Alcatraz and other prisons
that Whitey reunited with his brother William "Billy"
Bulger, who was soon to become one of Massachusetts’s most
powerful politicians. He also became reacquainted with John
Connolly, who had grown up around the corner from the
Bulgers and was now—with Billy’s help—a rising star at the FBI. Once Whitey emerged triumphant from the bloody Boston gang
wars, Connolly recruited him as an informant against the
Mafia. Their clandestine relationship made Whitey
untouchable; the FBI overlooked gambling, drugs, and even
homicide to protect their source. Among the close-knit Irish
community in South Boston, nothing was more important than
honor and loyalty, and nothing was worse than being a rat.
Whitey is charged with the deaths of nineteen people killed
over turf, for business, and even for being informants; yet
to this day he denies he ever gave up his friends or landed
anyone in jail. Based on exclusive access and previously undisclosed
documents, Cullen and Murphy explore the truth of the Whitey
Bulger story. They reveal for the first time the extent of
his two parallel family lives with different women, as well
as his lifelong paranoia stemming in part from his
experience in the CIA’s MKULTRA program. They describe his
support of the IRA and his hitherto-unknown role in the
Boston busing crisis, and they show a keen understanding of
his mindset while on the lam and behind bars. The result is
the first full portrait of this legendary criminal figure—a
gripping story of wiseguys and cops, horrendous government
malfeasance, and a sixteen-year manhunt that climaxed in
Whitey’s dramatic capture in Santa Monica in June 2011.
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