Whitey Bulger. America's Most Wanted Gangster And The Manhunt That Brought Him To Justice

KEVIN AND SHELLEY MURPHY CULLEN

Publication: W W Norton & Company, 2013, New York

First edition. 8vo. Signed on the title page by both authors. Two-tone boards, titles stamped in silver on the spine, viii [4], 478 pp., frontispiece, prologue, illustrated from photographs, maps, epilogue, notes, acknowledgments, index. Whitey Bulger was for a long time America's most wanted gangster. "After a nine-year stint in Alcatraz and other prisons 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 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." He remained hidden for nine years but was apprehended in Santa Monica, California in June 2011. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 49538