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Now a major motion picture starring Johnny DeppA New York Times BestsellerA Boston Globe BestsellerAn ABA Indie BestsellerJames "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in return for helping the Feds eliminate Boston's Italian mafia. But no one offered Boston protection from Whitey Bulger, who, in a blizzard of gangland killings, took over the city's drug trade. Whitey's deal with Connolly's FBI spiraled out of control to become the biggest informant scandal in FBI history.Black Mass is a New York Times and Boston Globe bestseller, written by two former reporters who were on the case from the beginning.
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Dick Lehr is a professor of journalism at Boston University. From 1985 to 2003, he was a reporter at the , where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting and won numerous regional and national journalism awards. He served as the legal affairs reporter, magazine and feature writer, and as a longtime member of the newspaper's investigative reporting unit, the Spotlight Team. Before that, Lehr, who is also an attorney, was a reporter at Lehr is the author of , a non-fiction narrative about the worst known case of police brutality in Boston, which was an Edgar Award finalist for best non-fiction. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner , and its sequel, Lehr was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1991-1992. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.
