Author Event~MOST WANTED: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected

*Talk/Reading/Signing

MOST WANTED: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected (Touchstone Hardcover / Simon & Schuster; May 8, 2012; $25.00; ISBN: 978-1-4516-6391-4) is the riveting account of former head of Massachusetts State Police Thomas J. Foley’s twenty-year pursuit of murderous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger—and of Foley’s key role in exposing the FBI’s protection of Bulger’s criminal empire.  A career officer with the Massachusetts State Police, Col. Thomas J. Foley rose to become its highest ranking officer in 2001. Foley was awarded the United States Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service for his role in the Whitey Bulger/John Connolly investigation. Since retiring in 2004, Foley teaches criminology at the University of Southern New Hampshire. He still resides in the Boston area.