Dick Lehr Bücher

Als sie Kinder waren, wuchsen John Connolly und James „Whitey“ Bulger zusammen in den rauen Straßen im Süden von Boston auf. Jahrzehnte später, Mitte der 70er, treffen sie erneut aufeinander. Connolly ist mittlerweile für das FBI in Boston tätig, und Whitey gilt als einer der skrupellosesten Akteure der irischen Mafia. Connolly, der zügig die Karriereleiter erklimmen will, setzt alles daran, Bulger als Informant für das FBI anzuheuern. Sie vereinbaren ein Treffen und einigen sich schnell. Doch Bulger hat ganz eigene Vorstellungen davon, wie ihm diese Zusammenarbeit nützen könnte ... Die wahre Geschichte eines verhängnisvollen Abkommens zwischen dem FBI und der irischen Mafia, das vollkommen außer Kontrolle geriet und alle Beteiligten in den Abgrund riss.

For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly wasn't enough. The men plotted to bomb a mosque, aiming to kill hundreds and inspire other attacks against Muslims in America. But they decided to wait until after the presidential election, so that their actions wouldn't hurt Donald Trump's chances of winning. An FBI informant befriended the three men, acting as law enforcement's eyes and ears for eight months. His secretly taped conversations with the militia were pivotal in obstructing their plans and were a lynchpin in the resulting trial and convictions for conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. White Hot Hate tells the riveting true story of an averted case of domestic terrorism in one of the most remote towns in the US, not far from the infamous town where Capote's In Cold Blood was set. In the gripping details of this foiled scheme, we see in intimate focus the chilling, immediate threat of domestic terrorism--and racist anxiety in America writ large.

From the bestselling writers of Black Mass, now a major film, comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger - the most brutal modern day mafia boss since Gotti.

Lehr provides the definitive account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance": the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. The high-stakes operation was undertaken sixteen months after Pearl Harbor, a longshot mission hatched hastily at the U.S. base on Guadalcanal. Lehr goes behind the scenes at Station Hypo on Hawaii, where U.S. Navy code breakers first discovered exactly where and when to find Admiral Yamamoto, on April 18, 1943, and then chronicles in dramatic detail the nerve-wracking mission to kill him. He focuses on Army Air Force Major John W. Mitchell, the ace fighter pilot tasked with conceiving a flight route with the new twin-engine P-38 Lightning with its fabled "cone of fire."