Bulger On Trial: Boston's Most Notorious Gangster And The Pursuit Of Justice
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In 2013 James "Whitey" Bulger, the south Boston gangster who had been on the run for sixteen years, stood trial in federal court. David Boeri, a Boston journalist who followed the case closely, examines the proceedings as prosecutors work to prove a long list of charges, including murder, extortion and racketeering, against a man who once seemed untouchable. The book looks at the witnesses who testified, the former associates who turned against him, and the questions of memory, betrayal and fairness that shaped the courtroom drama.
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It also places the trial within Boston's long history of organized crime and the uneasy relationship between the city and its own past.
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