Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice
“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 - Washington Post)“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)“This istheWhitey Bulger book by the two expert journalists who know the turf best. An unflinching look at the culture of silence and death fostered by Bulger—and by his friends in high and low places—and an important affirmation for young people growing up intoday’sneighborhoods of good people besieged by thuggery, corruption, and codes of silence.” (Michael Patrick MacDonald, best-selling author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie)“Whitey Bulger... is as much a social history as a biography or manhunt thriller.... In the same way that J. Anthony Lukas’sCommon Groundis essential to understanding Boston’s racial history,Whitey Bulgeris an authoritative treatise on the city’s late-20th-century underworld.” (Sean Flynn - Boston Globe)“Solid writing, remarkable details and the addition of Bulger’s fairly recent capture make this a worthy addition to the literature of the mob.” (Kirkus Reviews)“[A]n authoritative study of the legendary criminal and the long manhunt that culminated in Santa Monica in 2011….Whitey Bulgeris a portrait of its subject in all his complexity: devoted son and brother, vicious killer, neighborhood folk hero, anti-integration activist…. It's a terrific book—comprehensive, deeply reported, invested with an understanding of place and character, and the subtle, at times pernicious, ways they interact. This is hardly surprising; the authors, Polk Award-winningBoston Globereporters (Cullen also has a Pulitzer), have been on the Bulger trail for nearly 30 years. Their expertise infusesWhitey Bulgerwith authority, a depth and an engagement that makes it less a work of true crime than a social history.” (David Ulin - Los Angeles Times)