Description
About the Author
Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill are former reporters with the Boston Globe, and co-authors of Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss. O'Neill has won the Pulitzer, Hancock and Loeb Prizes. Lehr, a Pulitzer finalist, has also won the Hancock and Loeb awards. He currently is a professor of journalism at Boston University, where he is a codirector of an investigative reporting clinic. He is most recently the author of Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War (November 2014).
Reviews
A New York Times Bestseller A Boston Globe Bestseller An ABA Indie Bestseller "Black Mass should prompt a reevaluation of the uses and misuses of informers by law enforcement officials throughout the country." --New York Times Book Review "[Shows] how fragile FBI integrity can be when the good guys lose sight of [the] truth, the rules, and the law." --Washington Post Book World "[A] jaw-dropping, true-life tale of how two thugs corrupted the FBI." --Baltimore Sun "Bone-chilling ... one of the best nonfiction reads of the year ... a powerhouse of a book. Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill ... write like veteran novelists, weaving scene after jaw-dropping scene into a tapestry of sickening American corruption." --New York Post
Book Information
ISBN 9781610395533
Author Dick Lehr
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.
Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.
Weight(grams) 466g
Dimensions(mm) 205mm * 139mm * 33mm