Howie Carr

"A portrait of Boston's infamous Bulger brothers, Whitey and Billy--one as the city's most feared mobster, the other as a power in the Massachusetts State Senate."--Provided by publisher.

Crime reporter Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano. For two decades, Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty murders--for which Johnny would serve twelve years in prison. Carr also looks at the politicians and FBI agents who aided Johnny and Whitey, and at the flamboyant city of Boston, which Martorano so...

"Whitey Bulger is gone from Boston, but Bench McCarthy is here to take his place. Bench McCarthy is a thug's thug, a hitman, an underworld jack-of-all-trades running his own mob out of Winter Hill in Somerville while simultaneously handling "wet work" for Sally Curto, a half-demented, totally obscene mob boss. After years of gangland peace, Bench and Sally suddenly find themselves clay pigeons for unknown hit crews coming at them from every direction....

Stevie "the Rifleman" Flemmi was, for forty years, one of the most feared gangsters in Boston, and for much of that time, he was the partner of Whitey Bulger, the sixteen-year fugitive with a $2 million reward on his head who was captured in 2011. Flemmi has been convicted of ten murders and took the Fifth Amendment when asked about ten others. His cohort, Bulger, is charged with nineteen more. "Rifleman" is the story of Flemmi's life of crime, as...

"This is the inside, no-holds-barred story of the 2016 presidential election as told by a veteran journalist who was in the middle of it from day one - Boston talk-show host Howie Carr, whose radio network includes eight stations in New Hampshire, site of the nation's first presidential primary every four years. In 2015, Donald Trump quickly became a regular on the show, and soon Howie was flying on Trump One, moderating the candidate's town-hall...

"Gangster Whitey Bulger wanted him dead. Sen. Ted Kennedy tried to put his newspaper out of business. Gov. Mike Dukakis called him a 'sociopath.' The Boston Globe devoted a series to him--'Poisoned Politics.' Howie Carr--for more than 40 years, he has embodied 'the tabloid talk-show stuff in Boston,' as Whitey's brother Billy told a Congressional committee. Now for the first time Howie is telling his own story, in his own words--from the early days...