Black Mass
Whitey Bulger, The FBI and a Devil's Deal
Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill
“The idea of Bulger as informant seemed preposterous. But the notion nagged, an irresistible itch that stayed close to the surface. What if it were really true?”
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A gripping true story of violence, double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history.
Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon, ‘Whitey’ Bulger, godfather of the Irish Mob, waits for an old school buddy. Since they last met, Little John Connolly has become a high-ranking FBI agent.
Connolly needs an informant - someone with a good view of Boston’s dark side. Whitey needs certain priority treatment. Soon the die is cast.
“Black Mass succeeds admirably in showing just how fragile FBI integrity can be when the good guys lose sight of the truth, the rules, and the law”
washington Post
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“A jaw-dropping, true-life tale of how two thugs corrupted the FBI”
baltimore Sun
“A work of rare lucidity, high drama, journalistic integrity and plain courage”
James Carroll, Author Of An American Requiem
”Black Mass should prompt a reevaluation of the uses and misuses of informers by law-enforcement officials throughout the country”
new York Times Book Review
Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill
Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill are former reporters with the Boston Globe, and co-authors of Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss. O’Neill has won the Pulitzer, Hancock and Loeb Prizes. Lehr, a Pulitzer finalist, has also won the Hancock and Loeb awards. He is currently a professor of journalism at Boston University, where he is a co-director of an investigative reporting clinic.
“Black Mass is a revealing account of the use and misuse of two particularly notorious informers by the Boston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, the two Boston Globe reporters who broke the story, it is at once a uniquely Boston tale about Italian-Irish rivalries in organized crime, law enforcement and politics, and a parable of what happens when law enforcement officers get too close to their informer”
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
The New York Times
The film trailer for Black Mass, based on the book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill. Starring Johnny Depp as the notorious Whitey Bulger.
