[Where the Bodies Were Buried 01] • Where the Bodies Were Buried

[Where the Bodies Were Buried 01] • Where the Bodies Were Buried
Authors
English, T.J.
Publisher
William Morrow
Tags
history , biography
Date
2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.31 MB
Lang
en
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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 allWhitey Bulgerand 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 Hoodesque thief and protector who looked out for his South Boston neighborhood.

But the truth was much more complicatedand infinitely more sordidas 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...