Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice (Revised) a book by Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy

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Raised in a South Boston housing project, James Whitey Bulger became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this riveting story, rich with family ties and intrigue, award-winning Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy follow Whitey's extraordinary criminal career--from teenage thievery to bank robberies to the building of his underworld empire and a string of brutal murders.

It was after a nine-year stint in Alcatraz and other prisons that Whitey reunited with his brother William Billy Bulger, who was soon to become one of Massachusetts's most powerful politicians. He also became reacquainted with John Connolly, who had grown up around the corner from the Bulgers and was now--with Billy's help--a rising star at the FBI.

Once Whitey emerged triumphant from the bloody Boston gang wars, Connolly recruited him as an informant against the Mafia. Their clandestine relationship made Whitey untouchable; the FBI overlooked gambling, drugs, and even homicide to protect their source. Among the close-knit Irish community in South Boston, nothing was more important than honor and loyalty, and nothing was worse than being a rat. Whitey is charged with the deaths of nineteen people killed over turf, for business, and even for being informants; yet to this day he denies he ever gave up his friends or landed anyone in jail.

Based on exclusive access and previously undisclosed documents, Cullen and Murphy explore the truth of the Whitey Bulger story. They reveal for the first time the extent of his two parallel family lives with different women, as well as his lifelong paranoia stemming in part from his experience in the CIA's MKULTRA program. They describe his support of the IRA and his hitherto-unknown role in the Boston busing crisis, and they show a keen understanding of his mindset while on the lam and behind bars. The result is the first full portrait of this legendary criminal figure--a gripping story of wiseguys and cops, horrendous government malfeasance, and a sixteen-year manhunt that climaxed in Whitey's dramatic capture in Santa Monica in June 2011.

Product Details

Price

$26.95 $25.06

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publish Date

February 11, 2013

Pages

478

Dimensions

6.42 X 1.63 X 9.39 inches | 1.93 pounds

Language

English

Type

Hardcover

EAN/UPC

9780393087727

About the Author

Kevin Cullen is the president of Leadera Consulting Group. Kevin's expertise and commitment to the development of leadership skills within an organization has allowed business leaders to define and seize growth opportunities, rapidly improve performance, build the culture, and attain specific, measurable business results within their organizations. Kevin has over thirty years of experience providing business consulting, training, and development to individuals and Fortune 500 companies. He has trained and worked with leaders in all levels of organizations to design, deliver, and implement change initiatives to produce exceptional business results. Prior to this, Kevin delivered transformational courses and seminars for over fifteen years in the public sector for more than a quarter of a million people.

Shelley Murphy has been a mindfulness practitioner and educator for more than 20 years, and is currently a lecturer with OISE at the University of Toronto. A highly sought-after presenter on fostering student attention and well-being, and on incorporating mindfulness-based approaches in classroom settings, Shelley's writing has been featured in numerous publications. Shelley currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.

Reviews

If you locked director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Nick Pileggi and TV producer David Chase in the same room for a month, I doubt they would come up with anything as rich in scope and details as the real-life tale of Whitey Bulger.--Jeff Greenfield
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 Black Box
Whitey committed every crime outside. He lived years in prison and was certain that prison was preferable to the risks and disgrace in his life of South Boston. This book is 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
Solid writing, remarkable details and the addition of Bulger's fairly recent capture make this a worthy addition to the literature of the mob.
Whitey Bulger... is as much a social history as a biography or manhunt thriller.... 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