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For decades the FBI let James ''Whitey'' Bulger get away with murder, allowing him extended control of his legal enterprise in exchange for information. He continued the lam in 1995, after the terrorist problems of 9/11, 2011 followed top-ranked Osama bin Laden on the FBI'''s Ten Most Sought List, and then was captured in Santa Monica, California weeks after Bin Laden's demise. Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr. was a drug seller and enforcer who do almost anything for Bulger. With this compelling eyewitness bank account, Eddie Mac delivers the goods on his one-time manager and on such ex - affiliates as Stephen ''The Rifleman'' Flemmi and turncoat FBI agent John Connolly. Street Soldier is also a tale of the search for family, for approval, for respect, loyalty, and love. Forgotten by his parents at the age of four, Mackenzie became a ward of their state, experienced physical and intimate abuse, and eventually drifted into Bulger's orbit. The Eddie Macintosh personal computer who emerges in these pages is complicated: An enforcer who was simply also a national kick-boxing champion; a womanizer who fought for custody of his daughters; a kid never given a lot of the opportunity who continued, as an adult, to earn a university degree in three years; a guy who lived by a strict code of loyalty but also helped create a sting operation that could net one of the most significant hauls of cocaine ever before seized. Street Soldier is really as disturbing and exciting as a criminal offenses world, as heart-stopping as a pub fight, and sometimes as darkly comic as Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction or Martin Scorsese's Good Fellas. Actor/Producer/Writer Peter Facinelli (The Twilight Saga Films, Nurse Jackie) released within times of Bulger's arrest - that he has secured money and a script for a movie version of Street Soldier, which he optioned nine weeks earlier.
