STREET SOLDIER(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　The almost unbelievable story of endemic corruption, and the
official condoning by the FBI of violent crimes committed by James
“Whitey” Bulger and his South Boston Irish mob, entered a new
chapter with Bulger’s arrest in California. For decades the FBI let
Bulger get away with murder, protecting him from prosecution for
crimes it knew he had committed and allowing him continued control
of his criminal enterprise in exchange for information about the
rival Italian mafia and even members of his own gang.
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During the 1980s, Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr., “Eddie Mac,” was a drug
dealer and enforcer who would do just about anything for Bulger. In
this compelling eyewitness account, the first from a Bulger
insider, 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. Eddie Mac provides a window onto
a world rarely glimpsed by those on the outside.
　　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 of
Massachusetts, suffered physical and sexual abuse in the foster
care system, and eventually drifted into a life of crime and
Bulger’s orbit. The Eddie Mac who emerges in these pages is
complex: An enforcer who was also a kick-boxing and Golden Gloves
champion; a womanizer who fought for custody of his daughters; a
tenth-grade dropout living on the streets who went on, as an adult,
to earn a college degree in three years; a man, who lived by the
strict code of loyalty to the mob, but set up a sting operation
that would net one of the largest hauls of cocaine ever seized.
Eddie’s is a harsh story, but it tells us something important about
the darker corners of our world.
　　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.