Black Mass by Dick Lehr
When the FBI turned an Irish mobster into an informant, they corrupted the entire judicial system and sanctioned the worst crime spree Boston has ever seen. This is the true story behind the major motion picture. James Whitey Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in return for helping the Feds eliminate Boston's Italian mafia. But no one offered Boston protection from Whitey Bulger, who, in a blizzard of gangland killings, took over the city's drug trade. Whitey's deal with Connolly's FBI spiraled out of control to become the biggest informant scandal in FBI history. Black Mass is a New York Times and Boston Globe bestseller, written by two former reporters who were on the case from the beginning. It is an epic story of violence, double-cross, and corruption at the center of which are the black hearts of two old friends whose lives unfolded in the darkness of permanent midnight.DICK LEHR is a journalism professor at Boston University and a former reporter for the Boston Globe, where he earned multiple accolades and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Division, a Boston Globe bestseller and an Edgar Award finalist. He is also the co-author of several other books, including Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Bargain, which was a national bestseller and won an Edgar Award. GERARD O'NEILL is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has also won numerous other national journalism prizes. He was the award-winning investigative team's editor for many years at the Boston Globe. He co-wrote Black Mass, The Underboss, and Rogues and Redeemers (Crown 2012), a political history of the Boston Irish centered on the city's most renowned mayors, with Lehr.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060959258 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060959258 |
| Title | Black Mass |
| Author | Dick Lehr |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2001-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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