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Where the Bodies Were Buried
T.J. English
Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him
William Morrow
September 2015
On Sale: September 15, 2015
450 pages
ISBN: 0062290983
EAN: 9780062290984
Kindle: B00T3C2ZVI
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Non-Fiction Biography
The New York Times bestselling author of The
Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row
seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of
the world of organized crime—and law enforcement—that made
him the defining Irish American gangster. For sixteen
years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For
decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger—the
brother of influential Massachusetts senator Billy
Bulger—was often romanticized as a Robin Hood-like thief and
protector. While he was functioning as the de facto mob boss
of New England, Bulger was also serving as a Top Echelon
informant for the FBI, covertly feeding local prosecutors
information about other mob figures—while using their cover
to cleverly eliminate his rivals, reinforce his own power,
and protect himself from prosecution. Then, in 2011, he was
arrested in southern California and returned to Boston,
where he was tried and convicted of racketeering and
murder. Our greatest chronicler of the Irish mob in
America, T. J. English covered the trial at close range—by
day in the courtroom, but also, on nights and weekends,
interviewing Bulger’s associates as well as lawyers, former
federal agents, and even members of the jury in the
backyards and barrooms of Whitey’s world. In Where the
Bodies Were Buried, he offers a startlingly revisionist
account of Bulger’s story—and of the decades-long culture of
collusion between the Feds and the Irish and Italian mob
factions that have ruled New England since the 1970s, when a
fateful deal left the FBI fatally compromised. English
offers an authoritative look at Bulger’s own understanding
of his relationship with the FBI and his alleged immunity
deal, and illuminates how gangsterism, politics, and law
enforcement have continued to be intertwined in
Boston. As complex, harrowing, and human as a Scorsese
film, Where the Bodies Were Buried is the last word
on a reign of terror that many feared would never end.
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