The almost unbelievable story of endemic corruption, and theofficial condoning by the FBI of violent crimes committed by James“Whitey” Bulger and his South Boston Irish mob, entered a newchapter with Bulger’s arrest in California. For decades the FBI letBulger get away with murder, protecting him from prosecution forcrimes it knew he had committed and allowing him continued controlof his criminal enterprise in exchange for information about therival Italian mafia and even members of his own gang.? During the 1980s, Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr., “Eddie Mac,” was a drugdealer and enforcer who would do just about anything for Bulger. Inthis compelling eyewitness account, the first from a Bulgerinsider, Eddie Mac delivers the goods on his one-time boss and onsuch former associates as Stephen ''The Rifleman'' Flemmi andturncoat FBI agent John Connolly. Eddie Mac provides a window ontoa world rarely glimpsed by those on the outside. Street Soldier is also a story of the search for family, for
From the moment of its publication in 1977, Haywire was anational sensation and a #1 bestseller, a celebrated Hollywoodmemoir of a glittering family and the stunning darkness that lurkedjust beneath the surface. Brooke Hayward was born into the most enviable of circumstances.The daughter of a famous actress and a successful Hollywood agent,she was beautiful, wealthy, and living at the very center of themost privileged life America had to offer. Yet at twenty-three herfamily was ripped apart. Who could have imagined that this magicallife could shatter, so conclusively, so destructively? BrookeHayward tells the riveting story of how her family wenthaywire.