Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the Boston FBI & a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill [FIRST EDITION]

Black Mass - The Irish Mob, the Boston FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill 

FIRST EDITION [2000] PUBLIC AFFAIRS

7th printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Like new w/ minor wear.

2001 Edgar Award Winner for Best Fact Crime,

This is a true story of violence, double-cross, and brutal murders involving Irish mobsters and corrupt FBI agents in South Boston. Two boys - John Connolly, and James Whitey Bulger - grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the late 1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. What happened between them - a dirty deal to trade secrets and take down Boston's Italian Mafia in the process - would spiral out of control, leading to murders, and drug dealing, and racketeering indictments. And, ultimately, to Bulger making the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Told in narrative style by the Boston Globe reporters who covered the case from the beginning, Black Mass is an epic crime story that is also a book about Boston and Irish America; about the pull of place; and about the ties between people - ties that bind, and ties that blind.