Kevin Cullen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for the Boston Globe since 1985, was the first to raise questions about Whitey Bulger's relationship with the FBI. A frequent commentator on NPR and the BBC, Cullen has won major journalism prizes including the Goldsmith Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Selden Ring Award. Shelley Murphy has covered Whitey Bulger and organized crime in Boston since 1985, beginning at the Boston Herald and moving to the Globe in 1993. She has won a George Polk Award for National Reporting.
"A terrific book…A portrait of its subject in all his
complexity."
*David Ulin - Los Angeles Times*
"Easily the best story about crime I've read."
*Jimmy Breslin, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of The
Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight and The Good Rat*
"A great read…So many terrific, amazing stories."
*Dave Davies - NPR's Fresh Air*
"Riveting."
*The Economist*
"In the same way that J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground is essential
to understanding Boston's racial history, Whitey Bulger is an
authoritative treatise on the city's late-20th-century
underworld."
*Sean Flynn - Boston Globe*
"This is the definitive story of Whitey Bulger. As much social
documentary as riveting crime story, the book is a masterwork of
reporting by Cullen and Murphy. I couldn’t put it down."
*Michael Connelly, best-selling author of The Wrong Side of
Goodbye*
"This is the Whitey Bulger book by the two expert journalists who
know the turf best."
*Michael Patrick MacDonald, best-selling author of All Souls: A
Family Story from Southie*
Cullen and Murphy have made careers of covering Whitey Bulger for the Boston Globe. This sweeping biography-which includes coverage of his 16 years on the lam and his capture in 2011-is an excellent prelude to Bulger's upcoming trial. The scandalous story of the Irish American Winter Hill gang leader is familiar to many. Bulger was an informant for the FBI tasked with helping bring down the Boston mafia. His brother Bill served as Massachusetts State Senate president for several years before becoming president of the University of Massachusetts. (Bill Bulger was forced to resign when news came out that he'd been in contact with Whitey while Whitey was in hiding.) Bulger was given such free rein from his FBI handler, John Connelly (now serving 40 years for murder), that he saw himself as Connelly's partner. Not just the story of Bulger, this is a cautionary tale for how not to work with an informant; the FBI's mishandling seemingly made it easier for Bulger to stay free for so long. VERDICT Highly recommended. Should be very popular.-Karen Sandlin Silverman, Dresden, ME (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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