Whitey Bulger's Rise To Power & Relationship With the FBI

We had a great conversation on the show this week with New York Times bestselling author T.J. English. His new book is Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him. In it, English offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime that made him the defining Irish American gangster.

Want more background on Whitey Bulger? Here you go:

For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger was often romanticized as a Robin Hood-like thief and protector. While he was functioning as the de facto mob boss of New England, Bulger was also serving as a Top Echelon informant for the FBI, covertly feeding local prosecutors information about other mob figures—while using their cover to cleverly eliminate his rivals, reinforce his own power, and protect himself from prosecution. Then, in 2011, he was arrested in southern California and returned to Boston, where he was tried and convicted of racketeering and murder.

It's an amazing story, and as you might have seen, a new movie starring Johnny Depp is soon to be released on the subject.

Here's our conversation with T.J. English, author of the new book, Where The Bodies Were Buried: