By Kevin Cullen
This unforgettable narrative follows the surprising occupation and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger—a gangster whose lifestyles was once extra sensational than fiction.
Raised in a South Boston housing venture, James "Whitey" Bulger grew to become the main sought after fugitive of his new release. during this riveting tale, wealthy with kinfolk ties and intrigue, award-winning Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy keep on with Whitey’s notable legal career—from teenage thievery to financial institution robberies to the construction of his underworld empire and a string of brutal murders.
It was once after a nine-year stint in Alcatraz and different prisons that Whitey reunited along with his brother William "Billy" Bulger, who was once quickly to develop into one in every of Massachusetts’s strongest politicians. He additionally grew to become reacquainted with John Connolly, who had grown up round the nook from the Bulgers and used to be now—with Billy’s help—a emerging famous person on the FBI.
Once Whitey emerged victorious from the bloody Boston gang wars, Connolly recruited him as an informant opposed to the Mafia. Their clandestine dating made Whitey untouchable; the FBI neglected playing, medicines, or even murder to guard their resource. one of the close-knit Irish neighborhood in South Boston, not anything was once extra very important than honor and loyalty, and not anything used to be worse than being a rat. Whitey is charged with the deaths of 19 humans killed over turf, for company, or even for being informants; but to this present day he denies he ever gave up his buddies or landed an individual in jail.
Based on unique entry and formerly undisclosed files, Cullen and Murphy discover the reality of the Whitey Bulger tale. They show for the 1st time the level of his parallel relations lives with varied girls, in addition to his lifelong paranoia stemming partly from his adventure within the CIA’s MKULTRA software. They describe his aid of the IRA and his hitherto-unknown position within the Boston busing predicament, and so they exhibit a prepared knowing of his mind-set whereas at the lam and in the back of bars. the result's the 1st complete portrait of this mythical felony figure—a gripping tale of wiseguys and law enforcement officials, horrendous executive malfeasance, and a sixteen-year manhunt that climaxed in Whitey’s dramatic seize in Santa Monica in June 2011.
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It is an epic tale with many characters, but one ultimately sketched on a very small canvas. Shortly after his arrest in June 2011, Whitey was flown by Coast Guard helicopter from his jail cell in Plymouth, south of Boston, to the waterfront courthouse, giving him an aerial view of the shoreline. Those old graves had been dug up, the bodies exhumed, while Whitey hid in open view on the other side of the country. Now he was back in South Boston, his hometown, in chains, made to answer for those bodies and thirteen others.
It was a small world, Whitey’s world. The courthouse was just up the street from the spot where, in 1982, Whitey used a rifle to kill a hoodlum named Brian Halloran who had tried to turn him in to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Halloran had stumbled into the crosshairs because he didn’t know that the FBI was willing to let him die to protect their secret, that Whitey was their informant. An innocent man, a truck driver named Michael Donahue, had also fallen that day, killed by the same spray of bullets—and now his family was waiting inside the courthouse, waiting to lay eyes on the man who had ripped hope from their lives twenty-nine years before.
The first two children were born in Everett: Jean, named for her mother, in 1928, followed sixteen months later by James, who was born on September 3, 1929, less than two months before the stock market crash that would send the nation spiraling into the Great Depression. He had his father’s name but his mother’s looks—light skin and sharp blue eyes. His mother took to calling him Sonny, even as he grew older and others called him Jimmy or, more rarely, Whitey, after his striking blond hair. It was a nickname he never liked much.
