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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. With a new afterword covering the
trial, this book promises to become a true-crime classic."
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Her Alibi
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Mary L Schmidt
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After in-depth research of the circumstances of that fateful night,
investigative writer and former journalist Noel Botham finally
reveals what he alleges to be the truth - Princess Diana fell
victim to a ruthlessly executed assassination. Twenty years later,
the tragedy still shapes Britain as we know it today. How could the
Establishment betray the trust of a whole nation? How was the
killing executed? Was there really another car in the tunnel at the
time of the crash? Reporting from the innermost sanctums of British
intelligence and royalty, Botham reveals shocking answers to what
he claims is one of the UK's most successfully kept secrets. As
Botham affirms, The Murder of Princess Diana firmly lays to rest
the outdated theory that Diana's death was a mere accident, and
finally gives the people of Britain the explanation they deserve.
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