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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364 EAN: 9781586420765 ISBN: 1586420763 Label: Steerforth Manufacturer: Steerforth Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: June 22, 2004 Publisher: Steerforth Release Date: June 22, 2004 Studio: Steerforth Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: For decades the FBI let Whitey Bulger get away with murder. In exchange for being left alone to control his criminal enterprise, he provided the agency with information until the arrangement went sour and Bulger, now on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, went on the lam. Throughout the 1980s, the author, "Eddie Mac," was one of the Mob's, and Bulger's, enforcers. Complex, intelligent, and seemingly perennially doomed, he tells a tale of ruthless mobsters, turncoat FBI agents, and other criminal associates, many of them with links to trials or scandals still in the news today. Accompanied by black-and-white photographs, this riveting narrative not only delivers the goods on Eddie Mac's one-time boss and the Irish Mob in Boston, but also chronicles MacKenzie's parallel search for family, respect, and acceptance amidst a life of crime. Amazon.com Review: All due respect to the Gambinos and the Genoveses, but the Italian mob families arenÂ’t the only gangsters to make for compelling memoirs. In terms of relentless ruthlessness and its obsession with the almighty dollar, the Irish mob of BostonÂ’s James "Whitey" Bulger could match its New York counterparts hit for bloody hit. For decades, Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr. (a.k.a. Eddie Mac) was a drug dealer, enforcer, and key associate of Bulger (on the lam as this book was published). Mac's first-person account of those years is rife with more gory details per page than the entire last season of The Sopranos. By the brutal code of honor and loyalty in the streets, the candid dishing of such dirt marks MacKenzie as a world-class rat, second only to Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, the man who put John Gotti away. But Eddie Mac has some justification in spilling the beans; in exchange for his tips, the Feds turned a blind eye toward his crimes. (It's also worth nothing that Bulger himself was an informant for the FBI.) The author certainly doesnÂ’t portray himself as any sort of hero or "gangster with a heart of gold." Witness his charming account of one of many attempts to "enlighten" a wayward associate: "Probation notwithstanding, I had to open SteveÂ’s eyes a little. I headed over to DunkinÂ’ Donuts and bought a cup of coffee for $1.24. Medium, black, scalding hot. . . .Steve was still in his car, sleeping like a baby. The window was down and he had his head against the door, hands under his cheeks. I poured the hot coffee down the side of his face, making sure to get some on his eyeballs. . . I swear if IÂ’d had enough money to buy the gasoline that day thatÂ’s what I would have done. . . but IÂ’d only had $1.30, so the coffee had to do." Although MacKenzie has not one but two ghost writers (Karas is a contributor to People magazine and the author of The Onassis Women, while Muscato is a self-described "strategic communications consultant"), the prose never rises above the level of the sleaziest pulp fiction. But that of course is exactly its appeal, and fans of the true-crime genre will find Street Soldier a supreme pleasure, guilty or not. --Jim DeRogatis Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This guy is STILL A RATWant to spend the money you have making a RAT earn a living? Buy this book. Growing up in the same city, the same area, and the same neighborhood, I know what it's like. It was like any other part of the city, nothing special. Change the names and it's the same in Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, name the place it's the same. No big deal, except that the KING RAT, Whitey Bulger skipped out and hung out many people he persuaded to cover for him. MacKenzie has always been and will always be ... Read More Rating:  - A believable taleI have to admire this guy's honesty.He says basically,"If I hadn't got caught I'd still be doing it because the money and the feeling of power are just too great"!No phony questionable recanting like a medieval heretic that has just had his tongue cut out.However being caught is one of the consequences and that's why the justice system needs to keep up on surveillance and prosecution of criminals such as McKenzie,"once was?".Taking the moral "high road" just isn't a sufficient deterrant. ... Read More Rating:  - Ghost writer's dilema ?Whether you believe some or all, the author(s) have cashed-in on the "Black Mass" windfall just as many former 'Southie' sociopaths have done. Written for money, targeted at the prurient-voyeur audience. Without actually witnessing the acts, his co-writers-editors coaxed from the author, it is near impossible to know whether the central character now a somehow reformed sexual predator and convicted felon DAD is at all credible. There are many egocentric tough guy testosterone oozings ... Read More Rating:  - Rough and tumble of a Southie bad guyThere are far too many ways that our world produces guys like Eddie Mackenzie. Born to parents who were too young, wild and restless to be good caregivers, he was thrust into foster home, where abuse and neglect were more the rule than the exception. It was all but inevitable that he would grow up seething with rage and a thirst for revenge. Mackenzie's Southie upbringing brought him into contact with the kill-or-be-killed mentality that propelled him toward brawling and martial arts -- used for self ... Read More Rating: - Didnt Shea explain this guy in his book? I might be wrong but John "red" Shea lasted 12 years without saying a word. The guy who wrote this book sold out and ratted. Can someone correct me if im wrong, I read Rat Bastards by Shea twice. 
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