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The Underboss

The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family

Contributors

By Dick Lehr

By Gerard O’Neill

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Apr 5, 2002
Page Count
272 pages
Publisher
PublicAffairs
ISBN-13
9781586481087

Price

$21.99

Price

$28.99 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD

On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. In The Underboss, bestselling authors Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill tell the story of the fall of the house of Angiulo. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, aided in part by the Irish Mob’s Whitey Bulger, entered the Boston Mafia’s headquarters in Boston’s North End early one morning in 1981 and began to compile the evidence that would lead to the entire upper tier of one of the most profitable and ruthless criminal enterprises in America.

Originally published in hardback by St. Martin’s in 1989, The Underboss became a national bestseller. Information uncovered during the course of Lehr and O’Neill’s Black Mass investigations adds new dimensions to the story and the authors include this new material-including Whitey Bulger’s cagey manipulation of the FBI-in The Underboss’s revised text and in a new preface and afterword.

Dick Lehr

About the Author

Dick Lehr, a professor of journalism at Boston University, is a former investigative reporter, legal affairs, and magazine writer for the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting. He is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-up along Boston’s Racial Divide, and coauthor with Gerard O’Neill of the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal, and its sequel, Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss. He lives outside Boston with his wife and four children.

Gerard O’Neill was the editor of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, one of the nation’s top investigative reporting units and the inspiration for the Oscar–winning film Spotlight. A three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, has also won the Hancock Award, the Loeb Award, and many others. With Dick Lehr, O’Neill also coauthored The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family and Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss. He died in 2019

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