Title: Street Soldier
Description: For decades the FBI let James "Whitey" Bulger get away with murder, allowing him  continued control of his criminal enterprise in exchange for information. He went  on the lam in 1995 and today follows top-ranked Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Ten  Most Wanted List. Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr. was a drug dealer and enforcer who would  do just about anything for Bulger. In this compelling eyewitness account, Eddie Mac  delivers the goods on his one-time boss and on such former associates as Stephen  "The Rifleman" Flemmi and turncoat FBI agent John Connolly. Street Soldier is also  a story of the search for family, for acceptance, for respect, loyalty, and love.  Abandoned by his parents at the age of four, Mackenzie became a ward of the state,  suffered physical and sexual abuse, and eventually drifted into Bulger's orbit. The  Eddie Mac who emerges in these pages is complex: An enforcer who was also a national  kick-boxing champion; a womanizer who fought for custody of his daughters; a kid  never given much of a chance who went on, as an adult, to earn a college degree in  three years; a man who lived by a strict code of loyalty but also helped set up a  sting operation that would net one of the largest hauls of cocaine ever seized. Street  Soldier is as disturbing and fascinating as a crime scene, as heart-stopping as a  bar fight, and at times as darkly comic as Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction or Martin  Scorsese's Good Fellas.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Nonfiction, True Crime