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Whitey's Payback - And Other True Stories of Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge (Paperback)
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Whitey's Payback - And Other True Stories of Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge (Paperback)
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Sixteen stories of true crime from America's foremost authority on
the underworld James "Whitey" Bulger is the last of the
old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated
psychopath-who also happened to be a secret FBI informant-his reign
of power in Boston lasted for more than twenty years. When he went
on the lam in 1995, the kingpin's legend grew to rival that of Al
Capone. Captured after sixteen years in hiding, he now sits in a
maximum security prison awaiting trial on racketeering charges and
nineteen counts of murder. T. J. English has been writing about men
like Bulger for more than two decades. And this collection, culled
from his career in journalism and supported by new material, shows
English at his best. In addition to the numerous pieces about
Whitey, he reports stories about gangsters and organized crime from
New York City to Jamaica to Hong Kong and Mexico. Be they about old
school mobsters, corrupt federal agents, or modern-day
narcotraficantes wreaking havoc on the US-Mexico border, English
tells these stories with depth and insight. Combining first-rate
reporting and the storytelling technique of a novelist, English
takes his readers on a bloody but fascinating journey to the dark
side of the American Dream. As a journalist and nonfiction author,
Thomas Joseph "T. J." English (b. 1957) is one of America's
foremost authorities on the recent history of crime. Born in
Tacoma, Washington, he moved to New York in 1981, where he spent
his nights driving a taxi and his days writing for Irish America
magazine, producing a series of articles that would lead to his
first book, The Westies (1990), an account of the last decades of a
once-powerful Irish mob. Since then English has written about
Vietnamese gangs, mafia infiltration of pre-Castro Cuba, and, in
Savage City (2011), the history of racial tension between New York
City's police and the Black Power Movement. He has written magazine
articles on modern crime for Playboy, Esquire, and New York
magazine, and has also written for the screen, producing episodes
for the gritty cop shows NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the
Street. He lives in New York City.
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