From our Dueling Excerpts desk
For the past three days, the Boston Herald has been excerpting columnist Howie Carr’s new book Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner.
(The hardreading staff suspects that lots of the book is Carr’s Already Told Story of Stevie Flemmi, but we can’t say for sure since we have no intention of actually reading the book or the excerpts.)
Regardless, today’s Herald features the final excerpt in the three-part series:
‘Rifleman’: Agent Rico and Stevie like blood brothers
FBI always had a place for the thug
Gangster Stevie “the Rifleman” Flemmi is due in Boston in June to testify in his longtime underworld partner Whitey Bulger’s federal murder trial. In today’s excerpt from my new book, “Rifleman,” based on Flemmi’s 2003 confession, he details some of his dealings with corrupt FBI agent H. Paul Rico:
When they first met in 1958, Rico was a young FBI agent and Flemmi was an up-and-coming hoodlum. Pretty soon they were, you might say, thick as thieves.
And etc.
Previous excerpts include this . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
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They do seem like retreads, these Flemmi pieces. But for idle amusement at the publick houses, they pass. Meanwhile, all’s faire in love and in wackey Wingo land where Howie remains a force of nature–or of something.