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Simon & Schuster
May 2012
On Sale: May 8, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 1451663919
EAN: 9781451663914
Kindle: B005HF2WNG
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True Crime
The riveting account of former head of Massachusetts State
Police Thomas J. Foley’s twenty-year pursuit of murderous
Boston gangster Whitey Bulger—and of Foley’s key role in
exposing the FBI’s protection of Bulger’s criminal empire.
On June 23, 2011, James “Whitey” Bulger, fugitive Boston mob
boss, #1 on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, was arrested after
sixteen years on the lam. Incredibly, it was a member of the
FBI who originally tipped off Bulger to his impending
arrest, undoing nearly two decades of painstaking
investigation by a small band of state police officers. Most Wanted is the story of the campaign, led by
Massachusetts State Police Col. Thomas J. Foley, to bring
down America’s most brutal crime boss and the painful
discovery that Bulger was actually an FBI informant, a rat
providing inside information about rivals and witnesses—some
of whom wound up dead—in exchange for protection. And in
many instances, the man the FBI was protecting Bulger from
was Tom Foley, effectively derailing Foley's efforts time
and again. For Foley, life was a double chase: he was going after
Whitey while the FBI was going after him. Most Wanted
follows the tale as it unfolded, event by event, each one
contributing to the deepening truth: that the despicable
mendacity of Whitey Bulger was matched only by the terrible
corruption of the FBI agents who made his crimes possible.
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