Whitey's Payback

Sixteen stories of true crime from Americas foremost authority on the underworld James Whitey Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopathwho also happened to be a secret FBI informanthis reign of power in Boston lasted for more than twenty years. When he went on the lam in 1995, the kingpins 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 USMexico 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.