Street Soldier: My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob

For decades the FBI let Whitey Bulger get away with murder. In exchange for being left alone to control his criminal enterprise, he provided the...more

For decades the FBI let Whitey Bulger get away with murder. In exchange for being left alone to control his criminal enterprise, he provided the agency with information until the arrangement went sour and Bulger, now on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, went on the lam. Throughout the 1980s, the author, "Eddie Mac," was one of the Mob's, and Bulger's, enforcers. Complex, intelligent, and seemingly perennially doomed, he tells a tale of ruthless mobsters, turncoat FBI agents, and other criminal associates, many of them with links to trials or scandals still in the news today. Accompanied by black-and-white photographs, this riveting narrative not only delivers the goods on Eddie Mac's one-time boss and the Irish Mob in Boston, but also chronicles MacKenzie's parallel search for family, respect, and acceptance amidst a life of crime.   less