Whitey's Payback: And Other True Stories: Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge

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 racketeerin...