I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston, a tough, working class, mostly Irish neighborhood. I went from being a Golden Gloves boxer to a bouncer in a popular Southie bar called Triple O's. I got into many fights, knocked out a lot of people, and got noticed by one person in particular. People paid him a great deal of respect, came to him with their problems. Sure, I knew who he was. I'd heard stories. He was tough. He could be vicious. He ran the rackets in Southie. His name was James "Whitey" Bulger, although I always called him Jimmy.
In 1982 I went with Jimmy full time. We became partners, running legitimate businesses and some not-so-legitimate businesses. Basically, we were gangsters. We took what we wanted. We shook down drug dealers, bookmakers, like that. What were they gonna do -- go to the police? We beat people up; shot and stabbed them. And we made people disappear -- permanently. We were smart -- experts at avoiding microphones and cameras. We made millions through extortion and loan sharking and protection. And if someone ratted us out, we killed him. We were not nice guys.
I was there when Jimmy went on the lam in 1994 and I was his contact after he'd left Boston for good. With Jimmy gone, I ran things. Shortly before my own arrest in 1999, I found out that Jimmy had been an FBI informant even before I entered the scene. My life was never the same. 
When the feds finally got me, I found myself faced with something Jimmy would have killed me for -- cooperating with the authorities. 
Do I have any regrets? Nah, not really -- only that I should have spent more time with my wife and sons. But I've got a second chance now, and I gotta tell what happened -- what really happened. It's a lot different from what you read in the newspapers.
I was brutally honest on the witness stand, and this book is brutally honest, too -- the brutal truth that was never before told. How could it? Only three people could tell the true story. With one on the run and one in jail for life, it falls on me.

Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob

Biographies & Memoirs

Weeks, Kevin

Karas, Phyllis

Historical

William Morrow

I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy.
Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. We took what we wanted. And we made people disappear—permanently. We made millions. And if someone ratted us out, we killed him. We were not nice guys.
I found out that Jimmy had been an FBI informant in 1999, and my life was never the same. When the feds finally got me, I was faced with something Jimmy would have killed me for—cooperating with the authorities. I pled guilty to twenty-nine counts, including five murders. I went away for five and a half years.
I was brutally honest on the witness stand, and this book is brutally honest, too; the brutal truth that was never before told. How could it? Only three people could tell the true story. With one on the run and one in jail for life, it falls on me.

William Morrow Paperbacks

A Life Worth Living

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Unable to understand why his DA father is so upset about the defacing of a local temple, Zack learns that one of his own friends is behind the crime and begins to understand why such acts are so threatening. Original.

The Hate Crime (An Avon Flare Book)

Teen & Young Adult

Flare

Feeling like the black sheep of her family when she prefers lacrosse to tennis, a fifteen-year-old girl learns terrible secrets that threaten to upset her home life, her best friend's happiness, and her relationship with a new boyfriend. Original.

Cry Baby (An Avon Flare Book)

Harpercollins

Almost overnight, unremarkable Emily has become a pretty teenager who can open lockers without combinations and float to the ceiling at will. Suddenly, magically-thanks to her mother's new friend, a witch-Emily scores the winning soccer goal and a date with soccer star Brian Walsh. And while Emily's parents are busy heaping attention on Simon, Emily's troubled brother, the witch and her handsome warlock son are lavishing Emily with support of supernatural proportions. But in summoning her newfound power to save Simon from himself, does Emily risk losing that power, along with its glorious benefits, forever? And will the boy of her dreams still find her irresistible?

Spellbound (Enchanted Hearts)

HarperTeen

The Onassis Women

Aristotle Onassis's personal secretary reveals the late tycoon's private life and loves during his last decade, including his affair with Maria Callas, his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy, and his relationship with his daughter, Christina. 125,000 first printing.

The Onassis Women: An Eyewitness Account

Moutsatsos, Kiki Feroudi

Community & Culture

Putnam Pub. Group

Award-winning African American actor Lou Gossett Jr. takes an unvarnished look at the daunting challenges and incredible triumphs of his fifty-five year career Louis Gossett Jr. is one of the most respected African American stage and screen actors, who rose to fame with his Emmy-winning role in the television miniseries Roots and Oscar-winning performance in An Officer and a Gentleman. Now he tells the story of his fifty-plus years in the entertainment world—from his early success on the New York stage appearing with Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun, through his long Hollywood career working alongside countless stars, including Marilyn Monroe and Dennis Quaid. He writes frankly of his struggle to get leading roles and fair pay as a black man in Hollywood, his problems with drugs and alcohol that took years to overcome, and his current work to eradicate racism and violence and give our children a better future. <ul>
<li>Includes revealing stories and reminiscences involving famous performers, including Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Shirley Booth, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve McQueen, Richard Gere, Maggie Smith, Halle Berry, and Gena Rowlands</li> <li>Spans half a century of American theater and film history, people, and performances</li> <li>Highlights the problem of racism in Hollywood and the challenges faced by African American actors from the 1950s and 1960s onward</li> </ul>
An Actor and a Gentleman penetrates the celebrity glitz and glamour to offer an honest, heartfelt portrayal of the African American experience both in Hollywood and the New York theater world, as told by one of the nation's most enduring and highly esteemed actors.

An Actor and a Gentleman

Gossett, Louis, Jr.

Arts & Literature

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Zack's dad is the district attorney, so Zack hears a lot about all kinds of terrible crimes. The latest case is about graffiti defacing the local temple, and Zack wonders why his dad is making such a big deal about it. After all, it's not like it's a murder.But what makes this hate crime a real shocker for Zack is that he knows the guy who committed it-a fellow lacrosse player, and a good student who's never been in trouble. And it's only when Zack tries to get to the bottom of this senseless act that he fully understands the terror these vicious scrawls evoke. When a sickness that once swept the world, killing millions, rear its ugly head in a quiet community and turns friend against friend, it's a very big deal.

The Hate Crime

Children's Books

Mysteries & Detectives

iUniverse

For decades the FBI let James “Whitey” Bulger get away with murder, allowing him continued control of his criminal enterprise in exchange for information. He went on the lam in 1995 and today follows top-ranked Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr. was a drug dealer and enforcer who would do just about anything for Bulger. In this compelling eyewitness account, Eddie Mac delivers the goods on his one-time boss and on such former associates as Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi and turncoat FBI agent John Connolly. Street Soldier is also a story of the search for family, for acceptance, for respect, loyalty, and love. Abandoned by his parents at the age of four, Mackenzie became a ward of the state, suffered physical and sexual abuse, and eventually drifted into Bulger’s orbit. The Eddie Mac who emerges in these pages is complex: An enforcer who was also a national kick-boxing champion; a womanizer who fought for custody of his daughters; a kid never given much of a chance who went on, as an adult, to earn a college degree in three years; a man who lived by a strict code of loyalty but also helped set up a sting operation that would net one of the largest hauls of cocaine ever seized. Street Soldier is as disturbing and fascinating as a crime scene, as heart-stopping as a bar fight, and at times as darkly comic as Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction or Martin Scorsese’s Good Fellas.

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

Politics & Social Sciences

MacKenzie Jr., Edward

Muscato, Ross A.

Social Sciences

Steerforth

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