Whitey Bulger

“A terrific book…A portrait of its subject in all his complexity.” – David Ulin - Los Angeles Times“Easily the best story about crime I’ve read.” – Jimmy Breslin, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat“A great read…So many terrific, amazing stories.” – Dave Davies - NPR’s Fresh Air“Riveting.” – The Economist“In the same way that J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground is essential to understanding Boston’s racial history, Whitey Bulger is an authoritative treatise on the city’s late-20th-century underworld.” – Sean Flynn - Boston Globe“This is the definitive story of Whitey Bulger. As much social documentary as riveting crime story, the book is a masterwork of reporting by Cullen and Murphy. I couldn’t put it down.” – Michael Connelly, best-selling author of The Wrong Side of Goodbye“This is the Whitey Bulger book by the two expert journalists who know the turf best.” – Michael Patrick MacDonald, best-selling author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie

Kevin Cullen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for the Boston Globe since 1985, was the first to raise questions about Whitey Bulger’s relationship with the FBI. A frequent commentator on NPR and the BBC, Cullen has won major journalism prizes including the Goldsmith Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Selden Ring Award.

Shelley Murphy has covered Whitey Bulger and organized crime in Boston since 1985, beginning at the Boston Herald and moving to the Globe in 1993. She has won a George Polk Award for National Reporting.