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“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”

“Sheila Kohler’s sister died in devastating circumstances and it has haunted her work ever since. After all, she can keep her safe on the page”