Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him

✍ Scribed by T. J. English

• Book ID: 108985572
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1023 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062290984

✦ Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author T. J. English, the acclaimed master chronicler of the Irish Mob in America, offers a front-row seat at the trial of one of the most notorious gangsters of all--Whitey Bulger--and pulls back the veil to expose a breathtaking history of corruption and malfeasance

Whitey Bulger was, following the death of Osama bin Laden, the number-one fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list; he remained at large for sixteen years. One of the most prominent mobsters in Boston's criminal underworld from the 1970s until his disappearance in 1995, Bulger was sometimes romanticized as a Robin Hood-esque thief and protector who looked out for his South Boston neighborhood.

But the truth was much more complicated--and infinitely more sordid--as his trial on racketeering charges revealed in alarming detail. Throughout the era in which Bulger was a crime boss, he was also a Top Echelon Informant (TE) for the FBI, supposedly...