I checked Black Mass out from my local library on August 10th. I know I didn’t begin it until after I read The Infiltrator but it still took me over a month to slough through. My husband constantly told me to just give up but I preserved! The subject matter, James “Whitey” Bulger and his relationship with the FBI, is interesting but it’s very dryly written and got boring. Bulger was born and raised in “Southie” along with future FBI agent John Connolly. Connolly offered Bulger FBI protection in exchange […]
I got this rat, this gnawing, cheese eating fuckin’ rat…
From Marcus Brutus to Judas Iscariot, there are few figures people hate more than the double-crossing informant. In places like 1970s South Boston, there was a rule about it. Never talk to cops. Don’t be a rat. Better to die or rot in jail than snitch. It was a Mafia rule enforced from the top down. If a guy was even suspected of going to the cops, things weren’t going to end well for him. The notorious gangster Whitey Bulger loved to rail against snitches, […]