WHITEY

Drawing on a trove of previously classified material, Whitey tracks the exploits of a true American original—a psychopath who could mix brutal intimidation with a politican's soft touch. Although Bulger cultivated a Robin Hood persona, Whitey reveals his true character: supreme narcissism with a diabolical devotion to self-preservation at the expense of others.

In Whitey, the bestselling authors of Black Mass and award-winning Boston journalists Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill illuminate the events of Bulger’s corrupt life to deconstruct his insatiable hunger for power. This is a deeply rendered portrait of evil that spans nearly a century, taking Whitey from the streets of his boyhood Southie in the 1940s to his cell in Alcatraz to his cunning, corrupt pact with the FBI in the 1970s, and finally, dramatically, to Santa Monica, California, where for fifteen years he hid in plain sight as one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted.

Whitey Bulger was one of the most powerful and deadly crime bosses of our time. This is his story.

DICK LEHR is a professor of journalism at Boston University and a former reporter at the Boston Globe, where he won numerous awards and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting. He is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide, which was an Edgar Award finalist and a Boston Globe bestseller. He is the co-author of several other books, including the national bestseller and Edgar Award-winning Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal.

GERARD O'NEILL has won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism as well as many other national journalism awards. He was the longtime editor of the Boston Globe's award-winning investigative team. He co-authored Black Mass and also, with Lehr, The Underboss, as well as Rogues and Redeemers (Crown 2012), a political history of the Boston Irish focusing on the city's most famous mayors.